Rachel Rector: Impressions of Light on the Prairie: Cyanotype Workshop
Sat, Aug 19
|Bill McBride Studio
Learn how to create a cyanotype, a photographic printing process that produces blue prints using coated paper and light.
Time & Location
Aug 19, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Bill McBride Studio, 640 KS-177, Matfield Green, KS 66862, USA
About the event
In this workshop, attendees will explore the prairie in Matfield Green collecting nature items to use to learn to make your own sun prints using traditional cyanotype analog processing using the sun or UV light as our source. The cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces blue prints using coated paper and light. The process was discovered by the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842. Herschel used the cyanotype process so that he could reproduce mathematical tables along with other notes and diagrams.
We’ll provide all necessary supplies, but participants are welcome to bring anything they’d like to make prints of or print onto. Fabric, cardboard and paper can all be printed onto. Flowers, bugs, photo negatives, sticks, bones, or anything you can think of can be used to make your prints. You will take home original prints on paper and fabric.
About the Presenter:
Rachel Rector…