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mouse2cat — Ghost Snag Cyanotype
Published: 2010-07-20 07:37:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2305; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 66
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This is a large format cyanotype made from a photographic negative taken in the Smoky Mountains. I had to develop this in my bathtub and even that wasn't big enough. The print is 24x36. I am fascinated by how the landscape is obscured by fog and how the forest can seem so haunted and separate from us.Cyanotypes are printmaking/alternative photography process which use sunlight to develop. They all identifiable by a classic blue color (although you can modify the color with chemicals) and are the original method architectural blueprints were made.
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I took a digital photograph, I then took it into photoshop, put it into greyscale and inverted the colors. I then took a high rez image file negative and took it to a blueprint store where they can do large format printing. I had them print out my negative on frosted mylar.
To create the image, I coated a large sheet of paper with cyanotype chemicals and let that dry. I then took the paper and negative out into the sun and lay the negative on top with a piece of plexiglass to hold it down. for about 10 minutes. Then I brought the paper inside and developed it in my bathtub with simple water.
You don't have to have a traditional negative any image on translucent paper will do, You could take any image that you've made and do this to it. or you could draw directly on to the mylar with opaque ink. Cyanotype is sensitive that it will respond to partial opacity (unlike screenprint)
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Oh, super atmospheric. Rather mysterious. An interesting effect.
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And completely unexpected! I had no idea it would turn out like this until I had it in the bathtub poking it.
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This is like those images you see that people took of "ghosts". It's kind of spooky.
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Ghost stories creep me out more than anything else. And spooky is exactly the look that attracts me to this print. 
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