Here we are again with prints from the beginning of June, during a nice stretch of sunny, pleasant weather where I had the time and inclination to make wet cyanotype prints. I had coated cotton sateen and left it in a dark room to dry, but when I was ready to print is was still a bit damp--not wet, exactly, but not dry. I had tried printing on freshly coated wet fabric last year, and was ambivalent about it, but thought this state of affairs was worth an experiment. That's a bleeding heart leaf above and a variegated Solomon's seal sprig below.
Since I was trying something new I left out the pink textile paint and went for straight water spray, with just a touch of soda ash waster around the edges. More Solomon's seal below:
And a hosta--I've got lots of hostas growing!
And a huge bed of Solomon's seal that has grown from one plant long ago.
I left them out about 24 hours. Here are the un-rinsed prints. They look very encouraging at this stage. Lots of fireworks on the right on the bleeding heart print:
There was some puddling/washout on these, but nothing major.
These two look pretty and soft at this point.
Here are the finished prints. I think there is a subtle difference between these and ones done on dried treated fabric.
But then they are different every time, as there are so many variables.
These last two, the hosta above and the Solomon's seal below, are definitely different from anything I've done before. They manage to combine a dreamy look with high contrast. This is worth trying again.
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