June Wild Grass (18 x 36 inches, Original botanical cyanotype on paper)
(18 x 36 inches, Original botanical cyanotype on paper)
Although this looks like an etching or block print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints.
It is difficult to make one this size, 3 feet long, as the glass needed to lie on top of the cut plants is as long as the paper or longer. Glass and plexiglass this size is heavy and hard to move without the plants underneath sliding out of position or the glass breaking or cracking.
Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as each blade of grass or twig is laid by hand in that exact 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.
This print is the exact same size as the other wild grass print titled “June Breeze” with the main difference being that the composition is more tilted in the other direction and the blades of grass are a brighter white, not a pale blue as in the other. There is also a small brown spot which you can only see when very very close and if you’re looking for it. Read below.
NOTE: All my botanical cyanotypes are made from freshly cut living plants, not dried pressed flowers. Occasionally an insect that lived in those plants ends up as part of the print. There is a tiny brown spot ( 1/8" x 3/8") in the dark blue area around 5 inches down from the top left edge of the print. That is a stain from an insect that was hiding inside the tiny wildflowers under the glass during printing. Fortunately it is in the dark blue area of a very intricate pattern, but I have priced this cyanotype print $100 less than the other similar 18 x 36" print "June Breeze". When printing in sunlight, I cannot open the glass and move or remove anything during exposure to light or it will completely ruin the sun print just as if you opened the back of an analog camera while in sunlight.
Edges are straight-cut. Not deckled edges.
Printed on 100% cotton acid free watercolor paper.
Unframed.
Ships rolled in a tube.
(18 x 36 inches, Original botanical cyanotype on paper)
Although this looks like an etching or block print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints.
It is difficult to make one this size, 3 feet long, as the glass needed to lie on top of the cut plants is as long as the paper or longer. Glass and plexiglass this size is heavy and hard to move without the plants underneath sliding out of position or the glass breaking or cracking.
Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as each blade of grass or twig is laid by hand in that exact 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.
This print is the exact same size as the other wild grass print titled “June Breeze” with the main difference being that the composition is more tilted in the other direction and the blades of grass are a brighter white, not a pale blue as in the other. There is also a small brown spot which you can only see when very very close and if you’re looking for it. Read below.
NOTE: All my botanical cyanotypes are made from freshly cut living plants, not dried pressed flowers. Occasionally an insect that lived in those plants ends up as part of the print. There is a tiny brown spot ( 1/8" x 3/8") in the dark blue area around 5 inches down from the top left edge of the print. That is a stain from an insect that was hiding inside the tiny wildflowers under the glass during printing. Fortunately it is in the dark blue area of a very intricate pattern, but I have priced this cyanotype print $100 less than the other similar 18 x 36" print "June Breeze". When printing in sunlight, I cannot open the glass and move or remove anything during exposure to light or it will completely ruin the sun print just as if you opened the back of an analog camera while in sunlight.
Edges are straight-cut. Not deckled edges.
Printed on 100% cotton acid free watercolor paper.
Unframed.
Ships rolled in a tube.
(18 x 36 inches, Original botanical cyanotype on paper)
Although this looks like an etching or block print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints.
It is difficult to make one this size, 3 feet long, as the glass needed to lie on top of the cut plants is as long as the paper or longer. Glass and plexiglass this size is heavy and hard to move without the plants underneath sliding out of position or the glass breaking or cracking.
Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as each blade of grass or twig is laid by hand in that exact 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.
This print is the exact same size as the other wild grass print titled “June Breeze” with the main difference being that the composition is more tilted in the other direction and the blades of grass are a brighter white, not a pale blue as in the other. There is also a small brown spot which you can only see when very very close and if you’re looking for it. Read below.
NOTE: All my botanical cyanotypes are made from freshly cut living plants, not dried pressed flowers. Occasionally an insect that lived in those plants ends up as part of the print. There is a tiny brown spot ( 1/8" x 3/8") in the dark blue area around 5 inches down from the top left edge of the print. That is a stain from an insect that was hiding inside the tiny wildflowers under the glass during printing. Fortunately it is in the dark blue area of a very intricate pattern, but I have priced this cyanotype print $100 less than the other similar 18 x 36" print "June Breeze". When printing in sunlight, I cannot open the glass and move or remove anything during exposure to light or it will completely ruin the sun print just as if you opened the back of an analog camera while in sunlight.
Edges are straight-cut. Not deckled edges.
Printed on 100% cotton acid free watercolor paper.
Unframed.
Ships rolled in a tube.
