Learn how to make beautiful and unique cyanotype prints, a photographic process invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 and popularised by the botanist Anna Atkinson, who used the printing method to document British Algae.
The process is essentially a photogram; which is made by laying items of varying translucency on a light (photo) sensitive surface and exposing it to UV light (the sun or a lamp).
The workshop is led by Alison Lea: photographer, former lecturer and museum curator. @rocksnapper on Instagram.
In this workshop, we’ll look at the wide variety of ways the process has been used, historic and modern exponents of the process. You’ll be given the formula for making these unique prints, learn how to apply the solution to watercolour paper, expose and develop the paper (this is process of trial and error!), then if time permits a variety of other surfaces.
Please bring a variety of found or scavenged objects of varying translucency, think; feathers, shells, leaves, flowers, lace, anything that has an interesting shape.
All chemicals and paper will be supplied.
