Cyanotypes on fabric.

Quartz crystals and string.

White Vervain, Honeysuckle, and Gayfeather

Honeysuckle

Sawtooth Sunflower and Goldenrod

Goldenrod

Black-eyed Susans

Winged Sumac

Beaked Panicum

Foxtails

Foxtails, Daisy Fleabane, Goldenrods

Woolly Croton and Goldenrods

Sericea (invasive in Missouri)

An underexposed test strip made in indirect sunlight. I love how ghostly it turned out.

I also used the same transparencies to make wet cyanotypes, embellished with gold ink.

Nurturance. Watercolor, Acrylic Ink, and Acrylic Gouache.

 

 

Shapeshifters. Gansai on Cyanotype

Some works from the weekend. Saturday was a great day of exploration with different mediums on different substrates: hot and cold press watercolor paper, Yupo, cyanotypes.

Prairie State Park

 

A few cyanotypes from last summer and some recent September mushrooms.

The Ship

Longnecks

Dissipate

Visitors

 Collages. Watercolor, cyanotype, embroidery, and vellum.

I love how surprising they are. They are absolute magic, I swear.

Making wet cyanotypes again today