Cyanotype - Blue print with Ángela Tröndle

Workshop description:

In this workshop, you will learn about the cyanotype technique and create small works of art in blue.

This old photographic printing process (developed by astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842), also known as iron blue printing, does not require a camera. We will place plants and other materials on pre-coated solar paper as well as on self-sensitised paper to be exposed to the sun later.

During the final watering process, the shadows of the objects placed on the paper will appear in white and various shades of blue. A wonderfully simple process that fascinates anew every time, because it leaves a lot of scope for experimentation and improvisation, and because there is room for so many different things, from the simple beauty of a plant photogram to detailed experiments with additional materials, everything is possible.

We will get to know the diversity of this technique and at the end of these three days, everyone will take home a small, fine collection of newly created pictures and postcards.

The cyanotype offers the wonderful opportunity to take snapshots that arise from the encounter of heaven & earth with a sheet of paper, created by the creative nature of a person. Nature, with its small and large wonders, is the basis for our creative design, because the material we use for our creations comes from the earth, and the sunlight in turn exposes the images.