TBA Workshop: Cyanotype

When: Saturday, June 27
9 am-4 pm

Where: John C Henry Print Studio
room 301, Hanes Art Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
115 S Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Cost: $35

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Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process. Papers are coated with light sensitive chemicals and allowed to dry. Images are made by contact-printing a transparent or translucent negative to the sheet. In this iteration, we will use alternative image-making techniques–frottage and/or cliché-verre to make the negatives. With frottage, images are developed by rubbing a densely pigmented drawing tool over a textured surface. Cliché verre is a combination of painting/drawing, with photography. In brief, it is a method of developing an image on a transparent surface, such as glass, or thin paper or film and using the resulting image as the transparency to expose to light-sensitive paper. We’ll use some contemporary iterations of of this process to create transparencies to expose to the cyanotype paper. If it is sunny, we can do this outside, if not, we’ll use the exposure unit in the lab.

Materials included: Matrix-making materials: Mylar, cliché verre ground, other drawing materials, cyanotype chemicals, and printing paper (enough for four 9 x 12 prints).
Optional: Additional paper/paper variety and transparency film available for purchase.