Jo Howell

Starting out with cyanotype

By Jo Howell

Photographic artist, commercial object photographer, and analogue process fanatic

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Title screen
Jo Howell in front of We grow together cyanotype sculpture, photo by Iam Burns
History of cyanotype process
How I use cyanotype process
#wearexperimenting 2018 photography participation project commissioned by The Cultural Spring and NEPN
Me and Mary Eleanor cyanotype sculpture
#GemTrail mock up cyanotype sculpture
Why cyanotype?
Cyanotype is value for money
Less than £60 to get everything you need!
For cyanotype you will need:
Cyanotype chemistry
Opening cyanotype chemistry for sensitising
Fill cyanotype bottles with cold water
Shake your cyanotype solution
Wait 24 hours before using your newly sensitised cyanotype solution
Uv lamp for cyanotype
What light range works for cyanotype?
Cyanotype is easy, accessible, and non-toxic
Make an image
Make a digital negative
Apply cyanotype with brushstrokes…
Or create cyanotype without painterly edges
To dry or not to dry? Cyanotype
Do test pieces in cyanotype to learn
Using painterly marks in cyanotype
Embrace the mistakes! Serendipity.
Re-use things in your cyanotype work
Surface application of cyanotype
More surface applications of cyanotype

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