Original Abstract Cyanotype retailer Print, CITIES, Unique Small Artwork, Original Art to Frame

"Cities"

Original unique one of a kind abstract cyanotype print on acid free printmaking paper.

6 1/8" high by 4.75" wide, unmounted retailer, unframed.

The Cyanotype process, originally created by Sir John Herschel in 1842, is also known as a "blueprint" process. The final print is characteristically blue in color. The cyanotype print is also known as a "non-silver" process, since it employs ferric (iron) salts for its photosensitivity, from a combination of two solutions, one containing ferric ammonium citrate and the other solution containing potassium ferricyanide. Combining these complete solutions in equal parts creates a sensitizing solution which is then
brushed or painted onto the surface of a substrate like cloth or hot-press watercolor paper.

I developed a way of taking the traditional cyanotype process and altering the process so that instead of a normal blue and white print, I could get varied shades of blue, green, sometimes even yellow creeps in. Instead of the end goal of a very tidy and neat blue and white cyanotype, the end goal is a unique, completely imperfect print.