Mastodawn

Another A3 #cyanotype. This time I bleached and then toned it with tītoki (Alectryon excelsus) leaves. They do work but with a more subtle result than oak, and I needed to leave in the toning bath for over 12 hours. I tried a different paper too, but I think it was a little too heavily textured - ironic as it was 3x as expensive as the budget watercolour paper I used for my first A3 prints.
Image is perhaps a touch underexposed although with watercolour pencils has come up ok. I think with a dark mat board it would look ok.
House is beside State Highway One in North Canterbury near Cheviot I think. I've driven past it for years before finally stopping to take a photo.

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Christopher Cookson Sep 29

My obsession with #cyanotype continues. I've figured out how to make big (A3) negatives, and this is a print I made of St. John in the Wilderness church at Koromiko (Between Blenheim and Picton). Opened in 1871, and apparently attended by Catherine Mansfield, it seems fitting to reproduce with a 19th Century process.
Because blue gets a bit boring, I toned it with some oak leaf extract from leaves I collected in a local park in autumn.
I hand coloured with professional watercolour pencils.
Only in a cheap frame as it gets expensive to get custom ones made for every print unless I sell something.

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