Cyanotype Printing class with Art Source Gallery photographer Mike Shipman

Upcoming Date and Time

Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 9am - 1pm

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The Cyanotype process was invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842. It involves a photo-sensitive emulsion applied to a porous surface, like watercolor paper, the use of a photo negative (film or digital) applied as a contact print, exposure to UV light (sunlight), and developing in water. It is an archival process that can be left as is or altered through bleaching and toning, overprinting, painting, pastels, inks, etc. This is also a great art project for children. I’ve taught this in middle schools and high schools in Idaho, and at the Idaho Veteran’s Home as an Idaho Commission on the Arts Teaching Artist.

I will briefly cover the history and chemistry behind the cyanotype process, its relationship to other historical photographic processes (now called “alternative processes”), the procedure for creating digital negatives and making photograms without a negative, and safety around the chemistry. This workshop is also a prerequisite for my Handmade Buttonhole Book Using Cyanotype Prints workshop July 12 & 13.

There is a maximum of 10 for this workshop.