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Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style
Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item composed of paper in boho or japandi style

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Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total - Paintings

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24H x 54W in
60.96H x 137.16W cm
0.91 kg
2 lb

Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total
Unframed.

The darker print should hang in the middle between the paler two.

Although these monotypes look like screen prints or woodcuts, they are actually a form of 19th-century photography, cyanotypes, also known as a sunprints or blueprints. The normal color of a cyanotype (blueprint) is dark blue and white. However, this slate gray cyanotype was made by altering the ratio of two photo chemicals in the mix before brushing it on the paper.

This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the cyanotype antique photographic process. I altered the ratio of the two photography chemicals in the traditional cyanotype photo emulsion to achieve different colors.

The fresh cut flowers used are the native Douglas Iris s that grow along the Pacific coast. Their impossibly long stems bend with their own weight, creating beautiful arcs and lines.

Item Misty Iris Triptych: Three 24 x 18" monotypes/24 x 54" total
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.