Sunography - Paper

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I later learned that the Fabriano Artistico paper creates a very nice texture when being used for cyanotypes. Place any object or transparency on the Sunography expose it in bright sunlight, and rinse to reveal a rich blue print. As for the cookie cutters, since those have a much thinner outline the prints were much less defined for those.

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To make our sun prints, we used sunography fabric which we were sent from Zigzag and Zebra(they also do sunography paper if you prefer). It was first invented in 1842 and has been used up until very recently as a low-cost way to reproduce diagrams and drawings. Areas of the paper covered by your objects still contain the original blue molecule, so they remain blue. This sheet I could then scan onto the computer and create a digital version of the cyanotype using illustrator. By mixing equal parts of the two solutions you create a chemical which becomes sensitive to light when dry.Use old photo negatives, x-rays, bits of lace, leaves, printed transparencies or even household objects to compose designs. After doing a few experiments and some googling it turned out the paper needed to be exposed for at least a few hours.

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The superior quality and weight of Sunography paper produces finely detailed prints that are suitable for tinting or hand colouring with any media. We believe that giving children the right materials, they will make and play with beautiful things that last a lifetime. You’ve probably heard of modern art before, it defines a period of time between the 1860s and 1970s. This type of print dates back to 1842 and was popularised by Anna Atkin, one of the first female photographers. Second, the colorless compound whose formation was caused by the sun’s energy is not water soluble, so it cannot wash away in the water bath.As it turned out my final project of semester 2 was also heavily inspired by cyanotypes and technical drawings. This is also how I got back to the idea of using the cyanotype process as part of my infographic design. The entire way through developing my idea I was creating typographic layouts, diagrams and grids which I would turn into cyanotype prints. Artists had to find some new way of making their work relevant when a photograph was a much easier way of creating the true likeness of a subject. Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.

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I would definitely recommend using something more solid, but it was fun to explore the different effects. This is one of the easy solar science experiments you might like to try with the kids over the summer holidays. If no direct sunlight is available, don’t worry–just expose your print a little longer and wait for the same fading effect. Cyanotype is a very easy photographic process and can be used for much more than just reproducing photographs.If you use sunography paper, all the prints are meant to come out in a rich blue colour but using these we found more variety of colour. Please note, we are currently only able to deliver to UK addresses, including Northern Ireland and British Isles of Jersey and Guernsey.