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Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style
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Gray Willow Diptych (Two framed hand-printed cyanotypes) | Photography by Christine So | Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton. Item composed of cotton and paper in boho or japandi style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

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

Featured In Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA

Price $900

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DimensionsWeight
30H x 48W x 1D in
76.2H x 121.92W x 2.54D cm
4.54 kg
10 lb

PIAR of FRAMED original monotypes. (Cyanotypes printed with an altered recipe).

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
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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.