Christine So

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 mini collage on wood panel were made using hand-printed botanical cyanotypes in blue and yellow. Their sides are painted gold. Quite small, it measures just 8 x 8 inches x 3/4...

These are two separate 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold sold together. They are the same image but one is printed from the negative and the...

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...

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...

Unframed. Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper. Limited edition of 10. One has sold. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the 170-year-old c...

This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

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...

A pale shell pink sky at sunrise seen through tree branches. These are branches of a Dancing Peacock Japanese maple tree with its huge 9-pointed leaves. This is essentially a paint...

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 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 painting of the Japanese maple in my front yard. The red of the branches is a thin, sheer under layer and the creamy robin’s egg blue sky light-filled sky was painted on to...

New as of Jan. 1, 2025. This is a brand-new addition to the artist's ever-growing series of foggy woods in northern California near San Francisco. These tall eucalyptus trees are the...

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...

Scotch thistles bloom in the foreground while from the fog emerge towering Monterey pines behind them. These are the woods across the bay from San Francisco in early summer when this...

Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyano...

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 ...

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...

These are two miniature 12 x 6 inch hand-printed abstract cyanotypes mounted on wood. They are sealed with a satin finish varnish on the face and all sides.The sides are natural wood...

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...

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 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...

Unframed. Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist. Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a...

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 ...

Both painting and photograph, a painted print. This is a multistep combination of painting and a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s: cyanotype. The outline of th...

Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...

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 unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...

This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...

These are two separate 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to t...

This striped collage in all shades of indigo calls to mind Indonesian or Guatemalan woven textiles. The pattern mounted on wood panel was made by hand-printing, then then slicing int...

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...

This monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rush or the lat...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

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 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...

New. A nearly 30 inches (29 5/8") hand-printed version of the smaller landscape of the same name. There are just 5 editions of this largest size. All are unframed. The tree is a na...

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white. In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process. The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...

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 their lower branches are knocked off in the wind, causing them to lean more and more each year. These are the misty woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, shortly after sunrise. The California coastal redwood...

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. These are the iconic Monterey Pines ...

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...

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...

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...

Framed to 44 x 30 x 2 inches. The artwork itself measures 40 x 26 inches. Arches 100% cotton watercolor paper framed in a white 2-inch deep solid wood box frame. The intricate patt...

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 14, 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the ant...

This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. A smaller edition of the larger 18 x 24" photograp...

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 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...

A solitary oak tree is backlit by the glow of sunrise at dawn along a trail. The scene is a hiking trail in the hills of Oakland, California. This is a one-off mini studio proof. A h...

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 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. This butter yellow cyanotype sta...

Towering Monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. The photograph is of the coastal redwood...

This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white. In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process. The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...

Painted on birch wood panel and framed in a 1.5 " deep white solid wood floater frame. The same frame is now on the other tree paintings this size by the artist, Afternoon Bay Laurel...

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 ...

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique...