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Forest Light (hand-stained cyanotype, 12 x 9" matted to 14 x 11")
Located in Oakland, CA
A glimpse between tree trunks of distant Monterey pines dissolving into the light and fog. This is a hand-stained contact photo using the antique cyanotype process from the 1800s. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$112 Sale Price
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Pines through Thistles (11 x 7.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Towering Monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. The photograph is of the coastal redwood...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Morning Valley Light (hand-printed cyanotype, 8.5x 11 " matted to 11x 14")
Located in Oakland, CA
Towering monterey pines lean into the blue mist of the valley beyond.These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco. A larger framed edition of this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Summer Night ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Birch tree branches hang illuminated by t pale blue glow against a deep midnight sky. Neither woodcut nor screen print, this is a double-exposure cyanotype. That means different part...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
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Summer Poppies (30 x 22.5" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals are different from those used in black and white photography. The light-sensitive chemicals can be used to print blue and white photographs from a large negative or a person can capture the silhouette of solid objects rather like an x-ray in blue and white.
In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emulsion. When the painting had dried, she arranged plants on top of the painted silhouette in a pattern that would leave gaps like lace, carefully moved the entire bundle outside while still covered and then exposed the pattern multiple times at different angles to the sun, to achieve various shades of blue and white. The heavy cotton watercolor paper then needed to be thoroughly rinsed in order to stop the darkening process.
The silhouette here is of the Giant California Tree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Shades of Blue 3 (Single 16 x 16 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This striped collage in all shades of indigo calls to mind Indonesian or Guatemalan woven textiles. The pattern mounted on wood panel was made by hand-printing, then then slicing int...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Blue and White (Single 16 x 16 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This minimalist patterned collage calls to mind West African indigo textiles, Japanese Shibori fabric or perhaps the work of Ellsworth Kelley. The pattern mounted on wood panel was ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Night and Day 3 (Single 8 x 8 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This mini collage on wood panel were made using hand-printed botanical cyanotypes in blue and yellow. Their sides are painted gold.
Quite small, it measures just 8 x 8 inches x 3/4...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
The Journey (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The road disappears into white past the oak in the foreground. Morning sunlight glows through the dense fog. The road is Skyline Blvd in Oakland, California the moment when the sun b...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
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Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$144 Sale Price
20% Off
Pines through Thistles, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 17 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog and wildflowers are in the woods across the bay fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Winter Woods, edition 1 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$144 Sale Price
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Sunrise Ridge, edition 2 of 5 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Midnight Japanese Maple ( 32 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This species of tree is a Dancing Peacock Full Moon Japanese Maple or in Latin, acer japonicum aconitifolium. The actual Japanese name is Mai Kujaku. Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Desert Sunrise (22 x 13 abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyano...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Sunrise Mountains I (18 x 23" abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyano...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Morning Valley Light (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2023.
This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2023.
This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Mountain Ridge Diptych (Two 12 x 6 inch cyanotypes mounted on panels)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two miniature 12 x 6 inch hand-printed abstract cyanotypes mounted on wood. They are sealed with a satin finish varnish on the face and all sides.The sides are natural wood...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Leaning Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed.
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper. Limited edition of 10. One has sold.
This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the 170-year-old c...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Four Agapanthus Flowers ( 30 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Falling Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process and very big negatives which are the same size as the final print. These are the iconic Monterey Pines ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Foggy Morning Pines (Framed hand-printed cyanotype: framed to 30 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Timothée Chalamet bought this same landscape at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles in 2023.
This edition is FRAMED in a 30 x 24 inch slim white metal gallery frame with a 3 inch mat...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Indigo Maple Triptych (3 original cyanotypes: total 24 x 54" wide)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are 3 separately framed hand-printed monotypes on heavy cotton cold-press watercolor paper with a slight texture. Framed and matted they would span 78" about inches and with ga...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Photography
Materials
Monotype, Photogram
Light through Leaves 2 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram, Encaustic
Blue on Blue (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This collage on wooden panel was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints or sunprints) of leaves from my own garden. While cyanotypes are tr...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Into the Woods (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This striped collage in all shades of indigo calls to mind Indonesian or Guatemalan woven textiles. The pattern mounted on wood panel was made by hand-printing, then then slicing int...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Daylight Diptych (Two 24 x 12 inch monotypes mounted on wood panels)
Located in Oakland, CA
These yellow monotypes look like block prints or screen prints but are actually lensless photographs. They began as blue cyanotypes and were turned yellow through a process called "t...
Category
2010s Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
$720 Sale Price
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Elderflower Diptych (Two 12 x 12 inch original cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Summer Woods IV (18 x 18" cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Autumn Garden (17 x 11 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Autumn Garden II (10 x 10 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Round the Bend (6.5 x 10 inch hand-printed cyanotype. ed. 1 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
A curve in a s steep path in woods that disappear into morning mist. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Garden Wall (30 x 30 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of a Japanese aralia (paperplant, false castor oil plant, fatsia japonica). The big leaves have nine lobes and spread out wide.
The sky is painted a pale peac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,600 Sale Price
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Celadon Agapanthus (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Silver Vines II (24 x 18 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Midday Sun (18 x 24 inch hand-printed toned cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s. This butter yellow cyanotype sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Green Elderflower II (12 x 12 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Green Elderflower I (12 x 12 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Green Willow II (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage.
Though t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$160 Sale Price
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Zen Grass (14" diameter cyanotype mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original cyanotype permanently sealed and mounted on a round wooden panel. It requires no framing.
This monoprint was made using tall grass from my own garden during the ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Mixed Media
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Majestic Pine (16x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the mini studio proof of the larger hand-printed photograph of the same name.
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Pine Ridge (11 x 7.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
The flowers use in this unique monotype are called Coronaria Alba in Latin or by their common name Rose Campion. They grow 2 feet tall with velvety gray-green leaves and white petals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
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Early Summer Light (40 x 30 inch acrylic painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
The graceful arcs of this botanical painting call to mind Chinese ink brush paintings or Japanese textiles. The silhouette is that of a money tree, a plant traditionally believed to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Green Willow I (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$280 Sale Price
20% Off