Tag: cyanotype

Lava series.

Sand series.

Lichens series.

Sea Rocks series.

My series of Lanzarote Algae printed on Arches Platine 310 g cotton paper, using a hake brush for coating the emulsion, leaving the brush strokes visible.

A series of prints on Canson Watercolor paper, framed into a recycled cardboard hand painted frame.

On glasses and on bottles, the print is made on tissue paper.

The cardboard frame is a scrap from another cyanotype print.

Plantas-Medicamentos.

En el tentativo de mantener la salud utilizamos medicamentos, procedentes de plantas u obtenidos por síntesis. Sobre la materia, algunos mitos o miedos reinan generando visiones diferentes. Intentando acercarme artisticamente al asunto, he fotografiado algunas Plantas medicinales de Lanzarote e impresas en #cianotipia sobre prospectos de Medicamentos. El marco en cartón es reciclado de otra impresión en cianotipia.

En solo dos minutos el video del trabajo que hago en tres días: cortar todo el papel, poner la emulsion, exponer, revelar, etc. hasta la impresión final lista para ser vendida en los mercadillos artesanos de Lanzarote o enviada en todo el mundo.

 

 

 

The first print I offer you is a wonderful moment at sunset in Famara, Lanzarote. Young boys gliding with gestures that reminded me La Danse by Matisse.

It comes together with a dedicated, free verse poem by Solange Rincón, a good friend and poet living in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who won several prizes and have books published.

The colours of the following images are an approximation due to reproduction techniques changed during time.

Gilded over a red base, referring to the bizantine iconography like those medieval paintings made on wooden table by Cimabue in Italy and also in Eastern Europe.

They are 10×10 cm

I wanted to depict it since a long time, and the time arrived with a huge one. All becomes brown and the sun is barely recognizable, there is a hot diffused light from dazzling to soft, and wind.

I have tested and developed a special linearization system during lockdown, to elaborate the negative so that all the fading shades of the highlights can be there, smooth in the print. A difficult task with Classic Cyanotype formula.

I am happy to offer you this series in a limited edition of 50, made on Arches Platine 310 g, museum quality 100% cotton rag, size is 30×40 cm.

In the following galleries, for each print the full image is shown first, inside a frame as a suggestion, and then two details are shown immediately after. In the last two galleries you will find prints where it has been done a very light work with pencils to highlight the leaves movement.

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Small pieces, with a dimension from few millimeters up to few centimeters, are collected and taken into my photographic workshop to regain a new life. I am presenting you all those ocean beauties in the same printed dimension, to give them the chance to be seen, and chosen, by you.

Together with those images I like to present you other sensations from the earth, images from plants, their seeds, berries. Being larger than their life size they connect with the other sea beauties for the same stylistic and photographic approach.

In this work I felt the influence of art master Karl Blossfeldt, even if my style is very different. The use of natural light helped me to preserve every feeling these objects are able to transmit and the formal structure highlighted the details. The use of the prussian blue of cyanotype gives abstraction and poetry at the same time.

My Macro collection of those beautiful treasures is hand printed in Cyanotype, following the 1842 traditional photographic process, on Arches Platine, a very special 100% cotton paper specifically designed and produced in France for alternative photography processes such as platinum (hence the name), palladium, cyanotype.
Each photograph is 23×23 cm (9×9″), and is mounted on a simple white support 25×25 cm in Lanzarote markets and posted without it for your free choice of frame and home decoration.

You can find them in the artisan markets where I work in Lanzarote. I post all over the world in a very well protected parcel with registered mail. Please, contact me for further details.

My Macro photographs are available in my online shop: www.CyanotypeHandprinted.Etsy.com