ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Arts & DIY

Event Overview

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that utilizes the sun to produce striking monochromatic blue images. As autumn days grow shorter and sunlight diminishes, opportunities to create cyanotypes outside fades. This Spotlight brings the cyanotype process indoors, and offers a way to create beautiful blue images on a rainy day or throughout the winter months.

Participants will be encouraged to work from their own digital photos as source material. Using our large-format inkjet printer, we will print film negatives, which can then be altered through mark-making and collage. From these experimental compositions, we will create cyanotypes using Campfire’s exposure unit.

Over the course of the spotlight, participants will learn how to prepare paper with a specialized light-sensitive solution, print digital films, operate the exposure unit, and develop cyanotype prints. Everyone will go home with several cyanotype prints of various sizes.

What to Bring

Digital photos on a phone or laptop: You’ll be able print up to 2 onto film. During the workshop, you will coat paper and experiment with exposure times and composition, combining your photos with other collaged elements, and leave with 6 finished cyanotype prints.

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What's Provided

All other supplies will be provided

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