Some people focus on complicated and costly ways of creating cyanotypes, but I was fortunate to study with Frol Boundin at a one-day workshop at Runaway Press, where simplicity was part of the process. Here are a few of my favorite tools, and how I use them: Inkjet film for digital negatives: Pictorico is one …
Another collection that’s represented in the Spectrum Gestalt show at bG Gallery in the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica is my From the sea set of cyanotypes. The show features two works created by the alternative photo process technique – From the sea #3 and From the sea #5. A swirl of seaweed that captured my attention in Bandon, Oregon is the basis for the digital negative behind this …
My cyanotype From the Sea #1 was part of the Undercurrents exhibition curated by Los Angeles Center of Photography that was included in the Summer on 7th Festival from Inner-City Arts, which supports equal access to arts education for underserved young artists of Los Angeles.
Everyone warned me that my experience at Pilchuck Glass School would involve extended days and short nights, so I came armed with supplements galore to stay healthy and energized, plus a creative gameplan to help minimize hours spent developing concepts when I was already exhausted. (My instructor Silvia Levenson looked in wonder at my big binder of digital negatives, created …
Koru is one of my cyanotypes inspired by street art. Because my brushstrokes used in this work are reminiscent of the Maori design that symbolizes new beginnings, growth and peace, that’s my secondary inspiration. But you might not have guessed that Koru and all of the works below were crafted from the same digital negative, that takes elements of …