The second concept I have for a cyanotype lesson is also for a High School photography class.  In this lesson, students would create a photo of a figure performing an action.  This could be any action, dancing, reading, sleeping, playing a sport, etc. Students would make decisions about how they wish to treat the movement, that is, stop the action or incorporate movement.  Technically, they will be making decisions about shutter speed.  We will then print the images as a mosaic, first using software to divide the image into smaller pieces, and then printing negatives on acetate and printing them as cyanotypes.  Students cane then experiment with re-mixing the images if they wish to, and recompose them.  Students could choose to print other images for the cyanotype, so they would not be required to use the specific image they shot for it.

This exercise also offers students the opportunity of painting with ink on their negatives.

Artist Examples:

Jeffrey Apoian

Brooke Williams: