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Sunrise Mountains V:  abstract cyanotype framed to 24x30" | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta

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Christine So

Sunrise Mountains V: abstract cyanotype framed to 24x30" - Photography

Featured In Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

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UNFRAMED.

On 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed on the back by the artist.

*Different size from the taller narrower “Sea Cliffs 6" and Sea Cliffs 7.”

At 23 x 33 inches, this is one of the largest of my abstract cyanotypes. Though it looks like a watercolor painting with its luminous quality, this abstract on paper is actually a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. What you see is a multiple-exposure lensless photograph.

My technique is a form of experimental photography which may include tiny splashes from where water washed off the photo chemicals before it darkened and turned blue. Each abstract cyanotype is entirely unique. These exact lines, shapes and shades of blue cannot be recreated as the exposure of the paper was heavily manipulated by me during each printing.



A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water.<

Note: any tiny white lines are not scratches or damage to the artwork but actually the gaps between the bristles of the paintbrush used to apply the light sensitive chemicals in darkness. working in darkness it is impossible to see where the brush has already passed until the paper is exposed to light days later and it turns blue.

Item Sunrise Mountains V: abstract cyanotype framed to 24x30"
Created by Christine So
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.