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Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) | Lithograph in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) | Lithograph in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) | Lithograph in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) | Lithograph in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style
Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) | Lithograph in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or country & farmhouse style

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Christine So

Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes) - Paintings

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24H x 36W x 0.1D in
60.96H x 91.44W x 0.25D cm
0.45 kg
1 lb

Unframed.

These are two 18 x 24" original one-of-a-kind monotypes. Though they resemble block prints or screen prints, they are a kind of 19th century cameraless photography called a cyanotype. If matted and framed in 24 x 30" standard frames, they will span over 4 feet horizontally with a gap. Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is a one-of-a-kind made using fresh cut plants from my own garden.

"Cyan" means blue in Greek and cyanotypes are normally blue and white. These cyanotypes started as blue prints but were "toned" or altered in color through a soaking in sodium carbonate, a natural detergent. The darker the original blue print, the darker the yellow will be upon toning (altering the color).

The color transformation process takes two extra hours, and there is always the possibility of destroying the print if small spots in the original resist changing color from blue to yellow and remain as dark splotches on the yellow. About one of every three ends up neither fully yellow while the original blue is lost. The failure rate is high, creating wasted time and ruined artwork. Thus, the cost of my yellow cyanotypes is higher than for my blue cyanotypes.

On 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed on the back by the artist.
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Item Five Yellow Agapanthus Diptych (PAIR of 24 x 18" monotypes)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
The World Is Blue: Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Starbucks, Mayo Clinic, Kimpton Hotels, Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 10 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

She paints in acrylic on canvas and prints cyanotypes on paper. Most of her works on paper are sold unframed though the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their size. There are some paintings listed as unframed and others as framed. Take not of the description before purchasing.