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Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style

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Christine So

Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) - Photography

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DimensionsWeight
17H x 28W x 1D in
43.18H x 71.12W x 2.54D cm
0.23 kg
0.5 lb

Unframed.

These are TWO 14 x 20 inch same-sized original monotypes of the same species of flower native to California.
One is a paler gray-feen and the other is a darker gray-green.

This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the cyanotype antique photographic process. This one is more gray than pale green. I have other botanical monotypes that are more of a mint green in this collection.

The flowers are a species of native Californian flower called the California Tree Poppy. (Matilija poppy.) They bloom in summer and grow over 6 feet tall with white petals and a yellow center.

Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it 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 was made by dramatically altering the ratio of two photo chemicals in the mix before brushing it on the paper.

These would each fit nicely in a standard 18 x 24-inch frame with a 2-inch mat border. Together on the wall they'd span over 3 feet horizontally once framed.

Item Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" 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.