Cyanotypes.
At a time when one of my deepest desires was to lose myself in a creative process, the idea of making cyanotypes could not have arrived at a more perfect moment.
It began with my lovely friend Michelle. They planted the idea of making cyanotypes after a brainstorm of what I could possibly sell in the upcoming month? The month after quitting my full time job (again tee hee) but before leaving the country?
Michelle came over to my apartment to teach me how to make cyanotypes.
And thus marked the beginning of a four day streak of sun exposing, rinsing and hang drying for breakfast, lunch and dinner, just what I was craving.
I began with covering a bunch of watercolor paper sheets with the cyanotype chemistry and leaving them to dry in one of my darkest storage closets. Meanwhile, I chose a few of my own photographs, turned them into negatives in photoshop and printed them on transparency paper. Here you can see the negative placed on top of the watercolor paper and placed in a clamped picture frame in order to prevent any of the elements from moving.
Some of my favorites, of which I am no longer in possession of because they were happily bought. Forever grateful to you if you purchased a cyanotype when they dropped. Thank you. I still have a few left in my shop incase you’re wondering, snatch one before it goes!
I want one!
P.S. I also made a cute process video about it.