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Spring Garden (24 x 24 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new work completed in June, 2024. This original oil painting on birchwood panel is painted in a creamy pale green and translucent spring green and has a slight sheen. This is t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
Spring Clover II (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Clover I (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Sunrise Bay Laurel (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Paint, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite
Sunrise Magnolia (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Paint, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite
Sunrise Madrone Diptych (Two framed acrylic paintings: 21 x 21 in. each)
Located in Oakland, CA
Each 20 x 20 inch canvas is framed in a separate 2 inch deep solid wood floater frame, increasing the dimensions to 21. 5 x 21.5 inches.
Total span together is 44 x 22".
Hung with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Sunrise Madrone (Framed acrylic painting: 21 x 21 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a monochromatic rendering of branches of the native Californian madrone tree. There are two shades of the same green, the darker leaves being the thin slightly translucent fi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Garden Wall (30 x 30 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of a Japanese aralia (paperplant, false castor oil plant, fatsia japonica). The big leaves have nine lobes and spread out wide.
The sky is painted a pale peac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
Daylight Diptych (Two 24 x 12 inch monotypes mounted on wood panels)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Twilight Redbud (Acrylic painting: 48 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
First Light ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
Artist Christine So practiced printmaking for years and has a fondness for just two colors or two shades of one color. In the artist's words, "My paintings and prints are always nat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Oil, Graphite
Silver Vines II (24 x 18 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Tiny Wildflowers (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Branch IV (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Branch III (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Branch II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Rhododendron Branch I (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Eucalyptus (18 x 24 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Madrone I (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Madrone V (30 x 22" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Madrone IV (30 x 22" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Madrone III (30 x 22" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Forest Floor (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Poppies (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Ficus IV (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Ficus III (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Ficus II (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Rhododendron I (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Moonlight Magnolia III (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Moonlight Magnolia Diptych (Two 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Pine Ridge (11 x 7.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Dark Forest (8.5 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Wild Reeds (cyanotype/ monotype, 18x 45 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Pine Ridge (24 x 16 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Flowering Eucalyptus III ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Midnight Magnolia Diptych (Two 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. They are actually negatives (a reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original pho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Flowering Eucalyptus II ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Flowering Eucalyptus I ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Laurel Diptych (Two 23 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
This pair of monotypes contain the silhouette of a single branch of the native Californian Bay laurel. Although they look like screen prints or block prints these are cyanotypes, a f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Three Eucalyptus Branches ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Although I spent 10 years as a traditional printmaker using a press, my botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural light. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 8.5 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Majestic Pine (16x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Moonlight Magnolia (8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Moonlight Magnolia Triptych (Set of three 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are three 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 the nine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Leaning Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 16 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process and very big negatives the same size as the final print. These iconic Monterey pines can be found a...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Winding Path (24 x 14 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Bending Pine, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 14.5 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 15 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Moonlight Magnolia (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 in.)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Sunrise Oak (18 x 24 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Pines through Thistles (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Madrone Tree, edition 8 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2024.
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints made. Only seven remain.
This is a hand-printed contact...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
