Christine So Art

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...

This is the mini studio proof of the larger hand-printed photograph of the same name. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from S...

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...

Towering monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond.These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco. A larger framed edition of this ...

A larger hand-printed version of the 7.5 x 11" photograph of the same name. Only 10 editions made. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern Cali...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

A framed edition of this cyanotype sold to Timothée Chalamet at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles. One of 10 mini editions of the same photograph printed by hand using the antique ...

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 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 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...

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 is a larger version of the smaller photograph of the same name. All are hand-printed photographs on watercolor paper using the antique cyanotype process. The view is of a very m...

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...

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...

This is a larger version of the 18 x 11 inch photograph of the same name. This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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 contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco in northern California. Monterey pines tower over an early morning path as the distance dissolves...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The graceful arcs of this botanical painting call to mind Chinese ink brush paintings or Japanese textiles. The silhouette is that of a money tree, a plant traditionally believed to ...

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 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...

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 emu...

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 emu...

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

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...

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...

Actor Timothée Chalamet owns one edition of this same photo. Purhcased at The Other Art Fair in Santa Monica in the spring of 2023. Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on wate...

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...