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Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton & paper compatible with boho and minimalism style
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Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton & paper compatible with boho and minimalism style
Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton & paper compatible with boho and minimalism style
Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of cotton & paper compatible with boho and minimalism style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper) - Photography

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Shipping: UPS 5-7 days
Estimated Arrival: November 24, 2024
Works ship via United Parcel Service. Ground shipping from California to the East Coast or Midwest usually takes 7 calendar days, to Texas 3-5 calendar days, and to the West coast 2-4 in normal weather. Works on paper longer than 24 inches ship rolled in a 6-inch wide heavy duty tube.

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Sustainable

Made In USA

Made To Order

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40H x 20W x 0.1D in
101.6H x 50.8W x 0.25D cm

UNFRAMED. Ships rolled in a tube.

On 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed on the back by the artist.
Same 20 x 40-inch size and same shade of blue as “Sea Cliffs 6.”

MY NEWEST SERIES OF ABSTRACT CYANOTYPES:

Though they look like watercolor paintings with their luminous quality, they are actually a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. What you see is a multiple-exposure lensless photograph.

My technique is a form of experimental photography which may include tiny splashes from where water washed off the photo chemicals before it darkened and turned blue.

Each abstract cyanotype is entirely unique. These exact lines, shapes and shades of blue cannot be recreated as the exposure of the paper was heavily manipulated by me during each printing.

A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water.

Note: any tiny white ones are not scratches or damage to the artwork but actually the gaps between the bristles of the paintbrush used to apply the light sensitive chemicals in darkness. working in darkness it is impossible to see where the brush has already passed until the paper is exposed to light days later and it turns blue.

Item Sea Cliffs 7 (20 x 40" handmade abstract cyanotype on paper)
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.