Sunday, May 5th, 2024
Alchemy Art Center
12PM - 4PM | San Juan Island, WA
This workshop is an introduction to the cyanotype printing process, a non-silver alternative photography/printing technique originally developed to create blueprints. Cyanotype printing is a simple but relatively obscure process that allows for lots of experimentation, and can be layered with other types of printmaking and photography processes to create intricate, dynamic images. This workshop provides a history of the process, from its origins as a way to print technical material, to its use to document the natural world, and its transition into an art technique. We work with different substrates that can be printed on, and create prints. In this class students learn about the different ways to make images with negatives, as well as contact printing with objects.