Experimenting with Cyanotype Workshop
Saturday July 24, 2010. 10a.m. - 1p.m. / $25
This workshop, taught by Casey Roberts in conjunction with his exhibit of cyanotype paintings, will explore cyanotype as an art-making process. Participants will make at least two cyanotype prints by the end of the workshop. The $25 fee covers all of the materials and supplies. Participants are only required to bring clothes that can get stained and some objects for use in cyanotype photograms. Suggested objects could be flowers, toys, leaves, jewelry or transluscent objects such as a small stained glass window.
Cyanotype History
Popularized later for use as engineers’ ‘blueprints’, the process was first discovered in 1842 by scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Soon after being discovered, the process was adapted for photographic copying. Some of the earliest cyanotypes were made for scientific catalogues, such as the algae photograms by Anna Atkins (click on thumbnail at left). The process has now been succeeded by modern methods for photographic copying and is not widely used commercially or artistically.
