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Morning Valley Light (18 x 24" handmade original cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton with paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
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Morning Valley Light (18 x 24" handmade original cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton with paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Morning Valley Light (18 x 24" handmade original cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton with paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Morning Valley Light (18 x 24" handmade original cyanotype) - Photography

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18H x 24W x 0.1D in
45.72H x 60.96W x 0.25D cm

This 18 x 24 inch (45 x 60 cm) version is an original hand-printed contact photo on heavy watercolor paper using the antique cyanotype process from the 1800s. All of my hand-printed cyanotype photographs are “contact photos”, which means that the large negative is exactly the same size as the paper that the photo is printed on because the negative is laid directly on top of the paper while it is being exposed.

These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the California coast from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These pines here are in the woods near my house across the bay from San Francisco. They are especially magical emerging from the fog on mornings like this one, which are quite frequent regardless of the season.

The paper is a heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Slight variations of shades of blue exist from print to print as each sheet of paper was hand-painted with photo chemicals in the dark and printed in natural sunlight with variations in the weather and intensity of light causing some prints to be darker than others.

Item Morning Valley Light (18 x 24" handmade original cyanotype)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
Meet the Creator

Christine So

Oakland, CA

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.