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Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) | Photography by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style

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Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes) - Photography

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DimensionsWeight
17H x 28W x 1D in
43.18H x 71.12W x 2.54D cm
0.23 kg
0.5 lb

Unframed.

These are TWO 14 x 20 inch same-sized original monotypes of the same species of flower native to California.
One is a paler gray-feen and the other is a darker gray-green.

This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the cyanotype antique photographic process. This one is more gray than pale green. I have other botanical monotypes that are more of a mint green in this collection.

The flowers are a species of native Californian flower called the California Tree Poppy. (Matilija poppy.) They bloom in summer and grow over 6 feet tall with white petals and a yellow center.

Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography. The normal color of a cyanotype (blueprint) is dark blue and white. However, this slate gray and cream cyanotype was made by dramatically altering the ratio of two photo chemicals in the mix before brushing it on the paper.

These would each fit nicely in a standard 18 x 24-inch frame with a 2-inch mat border. Together on the wall they'd span over 3 feet horizontally once framed.

Item Misty Poppies Diptych (TWO 14 x 20" monotypes)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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Christine So
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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.