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Spring Wild Flowers (16 x 24" Original Cyanotype on Paper) | Prints in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and contemporary style
Spring Wild Flowers (16 x 24" Original Cyanotype on Paper) | Prints in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and contemporary style
Spring Wild Flowers (16 x 24" Original Cyanotype on Paper) | Prints in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and contemporary style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Spring Wild Flowers (16 x 24" Original Cyanotype on Paper) - Paintings

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Woman Owned

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Made In USA

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DimensionsWeight
16H x 24W x 1D in
40.64H x 60.96W x 2.54D cm
11.34 kg
25 lb

Unframed original one-of-a-kind artwork signed on the back.
16 x 24 inches on heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper.

Although this looks like a block print, or screen print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints.

Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as each blade of fresh-cut grass is laid by hand in that precise composition only once. I spend as much time planning and arranging the composition as I do exposing and rinsing the final print. There is no copper plate; there is no ink or printing press to make more than one copy.

Made with the tiny flowers of the California native buckhorn plantain, also known as ribwort plantain and lamb's ear. The tiny white dots are specks of pollen and teeny flower petals that came off the fresh-cut flowers while they lay in the sunlight during exposure.

Item Spring Wild Flowers (16 x 24" Original 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.