jevoncarey
Dahlia, Cyanotype
A hand-coated cyanotype of a single Dahlia, contact printed from an 8 × 8 inch negative onto Gerstaecker No. 3 watercolour paper.
For this print I wanted to increase the scale, not by enlarging the image itself, but by giving it considerably more space on the sheet. The 8 × 8 inch image sits centrally on a 16 × 16 inch sheet, leaving a four-inch border of untouched paper on all sides. The sensitised area retains its visible brushed edges, contrasting with the large, clean expanse of paper surrounding it.
The print has been left in its original Prussian blue rather than toned. I particularly like the way the comparatively small, concentrated image sits within the much larger sheet, and I think I will leave this one exactly as it is.
Dahlia, Cyanotype
A hand-coated cyanotype of a single Dahlia, contact printed from an 8 × 8 inch negative onto Gerstaecker No. 3 watercolour paper.
For this print I wanted to increase the scale, not by enlarging the image itself, but by giving it considerably more space on the sheet. The 8 × 8 inch image sits centrally on a 16 × 16 inch sheet, leaving a four-inch border of untouched paper on all sides. The sensitised area retains its visible brushed edges, contrasting with the large, clean expanse of paper surrounding it.
The print has been left in its original Prussian blue rather than toned. I particularly like the way the comparatively small, concentrated image sits within the much larger sheet, and I think I will leave this one exactly as it is.