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The circle is a calm and balanced shape. In Zen Buddhism it represents simplicity and harmony. This round print mounted on a painted solid wood panel is part of my new series.

Though it resembles an aquatint or multiple plate block print, it is a multiple exposure cyanotype, technically a cameraless photograph. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. 

My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light.

The sides are painted dark blue to match and the panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of gel medium to protect it.
The circle is a calm and balanced shape. In Zen Buddhism it represents simplicity and harmony. This round print mounted on a painted solid wood panel is part of my new series.

Though it resembles an aquatint or multiple plate block print, it is a multiple exposure cyanotype, technically a cameraless photograph. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. 

My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light.

The sides are painted dark blue to match and the panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of gel medium to protect it.
The circle is a calm and balanced shape. In Zen Buddhism it represents simplicity and harmony. This round print mounted on a painted solid wood panel is part of my new series.

Though it resembles an aquatint or multiple plate block print, it is a multiple exposure cyanotype, technically a cameraless photograph. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. 

My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light.

The sides are painted dark blue to match and the panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of gel medium to protect it.
The circle is a calm and balanced shape. In Zen Buddhism it represents simplicity and harmony. This round print mounted on a painted solid wood panel is part of my new series.

Though it resembles an aquatint or multiple plate block print, it is a multiple exposure cyanotype, technically a cameraless photograph. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. 

My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light.

The sides are painted dark blue to match and the panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of gel medium to protect it.
The circle is a calm and balanced shape. In Zen Buddhism it represents simplicity and harmony. This round print mounted on a painted solid wood panel is part of my new series.

Though it resembles an aquatint or multiple plate block print, it is a multiple exposure cyanotype, technically a cameraless photograph. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. 

My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light.

The sides are painted dark blue to match and the panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The papers used in the collage are heavy 100% acid-free watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of gel medium to protect it.

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Zen Palms Cyanotype on Wood Panel Photograph

Christine So

United States

Photography, Monotype on Paper

Size: 14 W x 14 H x 1 D in

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This is an original cyanotype permanently sealed and mounted on a round wooden panel. It requires no framing. This monoprint was made using plants my own garden during the shelter-in-place order during the coronavirus pandemic. My garden was the one oasis which hadn’t been changed by the terrible ...

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2020

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Photography, Monotype on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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14 W x 14 H x 1 D in

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Yes

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Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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Shipping is included in price.

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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Ritz Carlton, Mayo Clinic, Jumaira Resort (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, Evercore NY, Apollo Global Management, NY, Mazars Accounting NY, Limelight Mammoth Hotel & Residences, MD Anderson Hospital, Houston Methodist Hospital, Oakland International Airport. Christine So is a painter, photographer and printmaker living across the San Francisco Bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her works are heavily inspired by the woods where she has lived and hiked for decades. She works in acrylic and in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes. She creates botanical and abstract prints without a camera lens, as well as hand-printed landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. Whether it’s painting, printmaking, or photography, her work is always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic. She has worked in a dozen mediums, cycling back and forth from painting to printmaking to cyanotype, applying effects from one medium to the next. She bridges the mediums of photography, monoprinting and painting. Her favorite question when working in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes is “What would happen if…?” She has devised a range of atypical techniques using the cyanotype process. Arguably the most striking of her unique methods are her cyanotype paintings in her Delft Garden series. The painted silhouettes of plants each contain an intricate blue and white pattern within them when viewed up close.The lengthy process begins as a pencil drawing which is then painted in–not with ink or paint–but with the cyanotype light-sensitive mixture in a dark room. It’s a tricky process as it’s hard to see what one is painting in very dim light. Days later once the photography chemicals have dried in the painting, she lays plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that will leave gaps similar to lace. She then carefully moves the entire bundle outside and exposes the pattern to sunlight to create the image-within-the-image. The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf resembles painted Delft pottery, thus the title of this series: Delft Garden. Another of the artist’s innovative techniques is her series of completely abstract cyanotypes printed without photo negatives or stencils.

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