Christine So Art

The calm shades of a winter sky at sunrise. The silhouette of long graceful liquid ambar tree branches hanging low. The edges of the leaves are not sharp but are softened as if the w...

This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...

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...

A single oak tree in a meadow with the grass aglow in early morning. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printe...

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 gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...