• 3 Cyanotype Lesson Concepts: Part 2, Printing Photo Mosaics

    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,…

  • 3 Cyanotype Concepts for Teaching: First Project, Cyanotype in Collage

     Postcard from Nowhere: Collage with Cyanotype, Photographic Prints and Drawing Elements This project would be for a photography class, and involves some use of mixed media as well.  It would happen late in the semester, once students have done some photography and made inkjet prints, including test prints which would provide raw material in the…

  • Cyanotypes: Day 3. Using the process to mark time (and make a t-shirt)

    On my third day of attempting to make cyanotypes, I tried again to use the drawing robot to mark time.  I used an old piece of Arches cold press watercolor paper that had been languishing in a cardboard portfolio for years. (more about that in a bit)  I had prepared the paper the morning before,…