More wet cyanotype antics from back in September, as I continued to explore my new environment and break in my new studio space. The subject in these first two, however, is an old friend. Pokeweed,
Phytolacca americana, was the subject of the first cyanotype print I ever made, back in 2002. I turned it into an art quilt that I am as happy with today as the day I finished it. It's bordered in Mysore silks.
One of the lovely things about this plant is the beautiful color that the berries give off. You can see it starting to spread as this print was exposing under glass in full sunlight. Unfortunately, the color is fugitive, so I appreciate its fleeting glory.
I also did a few prints from a peony plant that came with the landscaping.
Here are the exposed, unrinsed prints.
These give me a thrill every time, both for their dark beauty and for the preview of the final prints.
That lovely green color is from the unexposed cyanotype chemicals and will rinse out.
Here are the finished prints.
Lots of fun swirly stuff happening here.
These will look great in their ultimate form with stitched leaf veining.
If you are new here, I've been working with cyanotype since 2002, and with the wet cyanotype process since the summer of 2017. All the wet cyan posts, of which this is number 44, where I document my experiments in detail, are available in reverse chronological order by clicking the "Wet Cyanotype" tab in the header bar, or by going here.
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