Christine So Art

The pale gray-green of this pair of monotypes calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut branches from eucalyptus trees which grow in the w...

Larger size hand-printed photograph than the other two listings of the same name. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San F...

A curve in a s steep path in woods that disappear into morning mist. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph print...

Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...

These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

This original oil painting on birchwood panel is painted in the shades of pale green wildflowers that one sees along forest paths and clearings as summer approaches. This is the silh...

The flowers use in this unique monotype are called Coronaria Alba in Latin or by their common name Rose Campion. They grow 2 feet tall with velvety gray-green leaves and white petals...

The different darker and lighter layers of this painting are thin and sheer, each showing through the next, which gives a softness and glow. You can see the dark pencil lines outlini...

These are branches from a Chinese elm tree. My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural light. There is no lens and there i...

These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the toweri...

These iconic Monterey pines are found all up and down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco to Mendocino. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the...

Two slender curved Monterey pine trees are backlit by the morning sun. The distant treetops fade into the coastal morning fog ever present in the woods across the bay from San Franci...

This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process and very big negatives which are the same size as the final print. They are of the woods in the hills of...

The tree is a native Californian Monterey pine. They are found up and the down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up north Mendocino. The moody scen...

REASON FOR THE 25% DISCOUNT off the normal price for this size photograph: The sky in the upper right edge is darker than it should be. It is the result of brushing on the light-sen...

Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

These graceful leaning Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. They become top-heavy as they grow and th...

REASON FOR THE 25% DISCOUNT: There is a brown mark in the pale sky near the right edge (See first closeup photo). Undamaged hand-printed 30" cyanotype photographs by this artist are ...

The tall narrow format of this unique cyanotype evokes scroll paintings. The olive branches are not white, but pale blue. Traditional single-exposure cyanotype prints are a solid dar...

The bright glow of a summer sky at sunrise. The silhouette of a single magnolia tree branch with its curving curling leaves. The darker grass green undercoat was painted in transluce...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. Native Bay Laurel trees like the one in the foreground and Coast Live Oak...

Monterey cypress trees cast their shade on an uphill path in the woods, soft morning light glowing in the distance. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from S...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. Coast Live Oak trees like the one here can be found all up and down the c...

A unique monotype of two freshly cut agapanthus from my garden using the 19th century photographic process of cyanotype. These flowers only bloom for two months of the year each summ...

These yellow monotypes look like block prints or screen prints but are actually lensless photographs. They began as blue cyanotypes and were turned yellow through a process called "t...

The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...

The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...

Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the ...

Morning light filters silently through dense coastal fog and layers of tree branches. This path through a tangle of redwoods and bay laurel trees is in the woods across the bay from ...

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog and wildflowers are in the woods across the bay fr...

This is a ‘dancing peacock Japanese maple’ (Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium) also known as ‘Maiku-jaku' in Japanese. Its massive leaves have nine points instead of 5. They can be as b...

Towering Monterey pines lean over a steep downhill path in the woods at dawn in a dramatic composition. All lines lean the same direction. Then the path zig-zags at a sharp angle upw...

Original acrylic painting on 24 x 48 inch canvas with 1/5 in inch deep clean white sides. Unframed. This is the fourth in the artist's ‘Twilight’ series of nine monochrome botanical...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage. Though t...

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Early morning in the silent woods. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the wo...

Two unframed 35 x 18 inch unique gray cyanotypes. Their combined total is 35 x 36 inches. Once matted and framed they would cover 4.5 feet horizontally. Although this looks like a...

The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...

These are branches from the native Californian bay laurel tree in my garden. I deliberately chose curving branches for the most interesting lines in my composition. I essentially “dr...

This nearly 4-foot long one-of-a-kind cyanotype with hand-torn deckled edges was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of the South African reed called "dakriet" ...

Unframed. 2023. Signed on the back. Narrower than "The Journey's End." This photograph was taken a year after the artist's husband died, revisiting the same path but photographing ...

The road disappears into white past the oak in the foreground. Morning sunlight glows through the dense fog. The road is Skyline Blvd in Oakland, California the moment when the sun b...

The leaves of the Chinese elm here are a pale blue rather than white. Though this monoprint looks like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cya...

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

This minimalist patterned collage calls to mind West African indigo textiles, Japanese Shibori fabric or perhaps the work of Ellsworth Kelley. The pattern mounted on wood panel was ...

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...

These are three separate 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. Unframed, side by side, they span 24 x 54 inches”. Once matted and framed ...

This collage on wooden panel was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints or sunprints) of leaves from my own garden. While cyanotypes are tr...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process and the biggest the artist has ever made. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sensitive photo emulsion. The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf is a sun print or lensless photograph of tiny plants laid on top of the painted area. The tiny flowers in the pattern across the painted silhouette are of the same species as the larger painted flower. "Cow Parsnip" and "cow parsley" are common names for this giant white native Californian wildflower...

A curve in a s steep path in woods that disappear into morning mist. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph print...

The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...

This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...

The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...