Experiments in wet cyanotype - part 37

 Welcome to part 37 of my ongoing experiments with and documentation of the wet cyanotype process.  I began this batch, on a gorgeous spring day, with an equally gorgeous and newly emerged flowering sprig of bleeding heart.

 I followed that up with an equally beautiful sprig of Japanese andromeda, aka Pieris. This is the third installment I've done this spring, as it has progressed from buds to full bloom.

 And then, because nothing else in in leaf yet, I moved on to two panels of garlic mustard. This is an invasive non-native plant, the scourge of my garden and especially of the woodlands, but it does make for some interesting prints. All of these are on cotton sateen that I treated with the cyanotype chemicals. This time around I didn't use any enhancements, just water. The weather was around 70F and partly cloudy, which sometimes works better than full sun for capturing blossoms.

 Here are the exposed, unrinsed prints. I could tell right away that the cyanotype gods were on my side/I had done a good job with the exposure timing.

 Lots of small brown dots from a bit of eco-printing on these flowers; already beautiful.

 And look at the much-disparaged garlic mustard! The leaves shrank as it exposed, leaving a sort of double outline, and there's just a sterling fire-and-lightning effect on the right.

 There's good stuff going on here also.

 Here are the finished prints. Every so often I think I'm done with this process, I have enough prints already, and then this happens:

 I'm so excited by this batch of prints.

 The ultimate goal for my cyanotype prints is to include them in a larger work of art. These are going to look so great when I add the stitching.

 So fancy and frilly!

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