I will create a custom 8x10 steampunk cyanotype

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Cyanotypes are a parallel development with the traditional silver halide path of photography. The cyanotype’s combination of light-reactive chemicals ammonium iron citrate and potassium ferricyanide was first discovered in 1842. Anna Atkins made the process famous by authoring books of seaweed images. To create a cyanotype one lays an object onto painted paper, lets the sun shine, and then rinses off the paper. One is left with a shadow imprint of the item. Here’s one of Lisa's many fern images she makes in her back yard, done on corrugated paper.

Usually in cyanotypes the aim is for the background painted surface to be as smoothly covered as possible. This allows the rich blue color, caused by the sunlight, to stand out against the white of the shadow. Lisa enjoys working with bicycle gears, ferns, and other objects.

In these situations, she aims to coat the surface – whether it’s corrugated or flat – with a fairly even layer of paint. She likes some texture in it, but she strives to have that texture become a background for the objects she is presenting.

Lisa finds cyanotypes to be mindful, meditative, and a palpable connection to the cycles of the world around us.

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