After a bit of a hiatus, I am starting up with the wet cyanotype/solarfast botanical printmaking. I always try to mark the solstices and equinoxes with some acknowledgment of the occasion, and this time I chose a big print on cotton sateen.
Depsite, or perhaps because of, a cold snowy winter, my garden is doing very well this June. It's coming up on two years since I moved here, and all the work of weeding, rejuvenation, and making new beds is finally starting to pay off. For this panel I used a center leaf of ligularia 'Desdemona', some wood poppy leaves, brunnera, and chinese ginger. The center was coated with the cyanotype chemicals, and the edges with various colors of Solarfast. I put it out around 5 in the afternoon, left it out overnight, and brought it around lunchtime the next day.
Considering I am ever so slightly out of practice, I am very pleased with how it turned out, and I am excited about the printmaking possibilities that lie ahead for the rest of the summer.
At the last minute before exposure I spooned on some soap bubbles, and some of them kept their form long enougn to show up in the print. Success!
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3 comments:
I love the detail that the bubbles give. I will definitely be adding that to my toolbox. Thanks!
Complimentiiiiii ma il solar fast non ha bisogno di un detergente apposito x il lavaggio finale?
Sorry for the delay in finding this comment, google has mysterious ways...Yes, solarfast chemicals need to be washed after exposure with a neutral detergent, and I do so with my cyanotype/solarfast prints.
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