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My project for course: Cyanotype: Printing with Light
My project for course: Cyanotype: Printing with Light

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My final project - The fungi of the Blackall Range. Cyanotype and green tea toned cyanotype on Pescia paper. 156 cm x 12 cm.
My final project - The fungi of the Blackall Range. Cyanotype and green tea toned cyanotype on Pescia paper. 156 cm x 12 cm.

I am killing two birds with one stone here. I needed a work for an exhibition at the Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Maleny, Queensland, Australia as part of a Maleny Printmakers exhibition. The theme was fungi, so I have made my work with 12 cms squares of cyanotype and green tea toned cyanotype. I have joined the squares together with strips of watercolour paper painted with orange watercolour and glued with Aquadhere. This wasn't such a great idea as the Aquadhere disolved some of the orange and it tended to get places it wasn't meant to be. The cyanotype, on the other hand worked really well and is on Pescia 300gsm printmaking paper. I did the artwork for the negatives from my own photos, but had them printed on to transparancies at a copy shop.

Here are the cyanotypes my project is made up with. All were exposed, washed, put in peroxide/water solution and rinsed.
Here are the cyanotypes my project is made up with. All were exposed, washed, put in peroxide/water solution and rinsed.
Two negatives were used and it looks as if they didn't line up exactly. Green tea toning gives it this colour.
Two negatives were used and it looks as if they didn't line up exactly. Green tea toning gives it this colour.
The orange is some misplaced watercolour!
The orange is some misplaced watercolour!
A much magnified image of small fungi in moss. Canon Coolpix P900 camera with 83x zoom.
A much magnified image of small fungi in moss. Canon Coolpix P900 camera with 83x zoom.
Another segment from a larger photo with shallow depth of field. Worked out better than expected.
Another segment from a larger photo with shallow depth of field. Worked out better than expected.
I would have liked a bit more detail in the mushroom. I like the abstract quality of the moss.
I would have liked a bit more detail in the mushroom. I like the abstract quality of the moss.
This was a reasonably sharp photo - but the cyanotype process has blurred it a bit.
This was a reasonably sharp photo - but the cyanotype process has blurred it a bit.
The photographs were generally taken in dim light in the rainforest - but the cyanotypes were exposed in bright sunlight.
The photographs were generally taken in dim light in the rainforest - but the cyanotypes were exposed in bright sunlight.
A different viewpoint. The lines are from scratches on my perspex - need a new one, or glass, for cyanotypes.
A different viewpoint. The lines are from scratches on my perspex - need a new one, or glass, for cyanotypes.
One of my favourites. It could be a coral fungus.
One of my favourites. It could be a coral fungus.
These were tiny - about pin head size. Probably a section of a phone photo.
These were tiny - about pin head size. Probably a section of a phone photo.
Split fungi - dangerous to breath in as lungs can be impaired. Not a good photo or cyanotype,but does look okay in real life.
Split fungi - dangerous to breath in as lungs can be impaired. Not a good photo or cyanotype,but does look okay in real life.
I had bleached for 2 secs (a splash of domestic bleach in water bath) before tea toning to bring the tones out..
I had bleached for 2 secs (a splash of domestic bleach in water bath) before tea toning to bring the tones out..
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