Original cyanotype
You know what my love language is?
🐍🪶☠️🪲🪹
When someone finds a cool specimen in nature and brings it to me. Nothing says "I love you" like finding a rat skull and saying "this made me think of you." And my parents sure are good at showing me love. A couple bird skulls, a dead dragonfly, the full skeleton of a skink found during a renovation, dozens of cool feathers . And most recently, a 5 foot long snake shed. They know me so well. It's not even my birthday yet!
22”x30” Original cyanotype print on 300g watercolor paper.
** Listing is for print only. Frame for illustration purposes and is not included.
Each print is an original and the cyanotype chemicals are individually handpainted on the paper, so the tones will give subtle variations among prints. The beauty of cyanotypes is that each print is perfectly imperfect and unique.
About cyanotype:
A cyanotype (sun-print) is light sensitive photographic print that dates back to the 1840’s. I create my art by painting a light sensitive solution onto watercolor paper. The paper is covered with transparent film negatives that I create from my photographs and other organic material that I have pressed. I then expose the surface to sunlight. Whatever is on the surface, plants or a negative, blocks the light and the remaining paper that is exposed to sunlight will be chemically altered. Finally, the print is washed with water which rinses off the remaining chemicals and results in a deep Prussian blue color.
Copyright 2025 Stevie Oliver
Original cyanotype
You know what my love language is?
🐍🪶☠️🪲🪹
When someone finds a cool specimen in nature and brings it to me. Nothing says "I love you" like finding a rat skull and saying "this made me think of you." And my parents sure are good at showing me love. A couple bird skulls, a dead dragonfly, the full skeleton of a skink found during a renovation, dozens of cool feathers . And most recently, a 5 foot long snake shed. They know me so well. It's not even my birthday yet!
22”x30” Original cyanotype print on 300g watercolor paper.
** Listing is for print only. Frame for illustration purposes and is not included.
Each print is an original and the cyanotype chemicals are individually handpainted on the paper, so the tones will give subtle variations among prints. The beauty of cyanotypes is that each print is perfectly imperfect and unique.
About cyanotype:
A cyanotype (sun-print) is light sensitive photographic print that dates back to the 1840’s. I create my art by painting a light sensitive solution onto watercolor paper. The paper is covered with transparent film negatives that I create from my photographs and other organic material that I have pressed. I then expose the surface to sunlight. Whatever is on the surface, plants or a negative, blocks the light and the remaining paper that is exposed to sunlight will be chemically altered. Finally, the print is washed with water which rinses off the remaining chemicals and results in a deep Prussian blue color.
Copyright 2025 Stevie Oliver
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