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Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 8.5" matted to 14 x 11")
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Forest Light (hand-stained cyanotype, 12 x 9" matted to 14 x 11")
Located in Oakland, CA
A glimpse between tree trunks of distant Monterey pines dissolving into the light and fog. This is a hand-stained contact photo using the antique cyanotype process from the 1800s. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Pines through Thistles (11 x 7.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Slender Pines (11 x 8 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
Morning Valley Light (hand-printed cyanotype, 8.5x 11 " matted to 11x 14")
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Three Camellia 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
Delft Agapanthus (cyanotype painting framed to 35 x 28")
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 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Summer Night ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Birch tree branches hang illuminated by t pale blue glow against a deep midnight sky. Neither woodcut nor screen print, this is a double-exposure cyanotype. That means different part...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Summer Woods III (40 x 26 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Summer 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 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
The Journey (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Photogram
Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 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 are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Pines through Thistles, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 17 x 11 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
Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 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
Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
Winter Woods, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Madrone Tree (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints made.
This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
Winter Woods, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
June Wild Grass (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow 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 Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
June Breeze (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow 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 Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Caminante No Hay Camino (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed.
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper.
Actor Timothée Chalamet owns one smaller edition of this photo, having bought it in person at The Other ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Sunrise Ridge, edition 2 of 5 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 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 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Midnight Japanese Maple ( 32 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This species of tree is a Dancing Peacock Full Moon Japanese Maple or in Latin, acer japonicum aconitifolium. The actual Japanese name is Mai Kujaku. Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Monotype, Photogram
Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype, Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
Desert Sunrise (22 x 13 abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Sunrise Mountains I (18 x 23" abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Morning Valley Light (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Thistles and Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 16 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Thistles and Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Leaning Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Foggy Morning Pines (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper. Actor Timothée Chalamet owns one edition of this photo, though his is a mirror image printed from the only time that t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Photogram
Four Agapanthus Flowers ( 30 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
The Pond Diptych (2 hand-printed botanical cyanotypes, 24 x 18 inches each)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Falling Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
The Journey's End (Hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 20 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. 2022. Signed on the back.
This photograph was taken just weeks after the artist's husband died, thus the title, "The Journey's End." Paths that disappear into the mist, p...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
The Journey's End (Framed hand-printed cyanotype: 24 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
FRAMED. Image itself measured 20 x 30 inch original photograph and is matted and framed in 24 x 36 inch (60 x 91cm) white metal gallery frame with a 1-inch profile.
This photograph ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Foggy Morning Pines (Framed hand-printed cyanotype: framed to 30 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Timothée Chalamet bought this same landscape at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles in 2023.
This edition is FRAMED in a 30 x 24 inch slim black metal gallery frame with a 3 inch mat...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
The Journey's End II (Hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 17 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
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 ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Indigo Maple Triptych (3 framed original cyanotypes: total 31 x 78" wide)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are 3 separately framed hand-printed monotypes on heavy cotton cold-press watercolor paper with a slight texture. Framed as they are in 31 x 26 x 1.5 deep" white wood frames, t...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Photography
Materials
Monotype, Photogram
Green Willow II (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Green Willow I (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
