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Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta

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Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) - Photography

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Pair of FRAMED original monotypes. (Cyanotypes printed with an altered recipe that yields a gray color rather than blue).

They are framed in 3/4 inch 23 x 29 inch white wood frames with a 2inch mat and a 3/4-inch side profile.
$900 the pair.

These are two separate bluish gray cyanotypes. Each one measures 18 x 24“,( 45 x 60 cm) and is a unique monotype. As with my other botanical cyanotypes, all are unique monotypes made from living plants. There is no etched metal plate, and no carved wood block to make a second identical print.

Neither ink nor paint were used to make these. Although they look like screen prints or woodcuts, this is actually a form of 19th-century photography. The normal color of a cyanotype (blueprint) is dark blue and white. However, this slate gray and cream cyanotype coloring was made by dramatically altering the ratio of two photo chemicals in the mix before brushing it on the paper.

Item Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes)
Created by Christine So
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
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 Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 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.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.