Cyanotype exposure time – results of survey
Experienced cyantoype printers share their knowledge in this survey.
Cyanotypes painted with acrylics
Egill Ibsen shows us how cyanotypes can be painted with acrylics to get a spectacular result.
Combining gelatin silver and cyanotype
After experimenting Amber Reumann Engfer has found a way to create a cyanotype on a fiber based gelatin silver paper (black and white paper).
In-camera cyanotype negative prints
Balazs Sprenc has managed to make cyanotypes – negative prints – by placing the paper directly into the camera.
Preparation & use for Siderotypes: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Argyrotype, Ziatype, and the silver halide process of B&W silver gelatin v.1.5
The Special Edition Art Project was created to afford photographers and artists practical access to the creation of wet-processed photographic prints. This photographic processes user guide focusses instruction on classic B&W silver gelatin printmaking as well as the historic light-sensitive iron based Siderotypes processes of Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint, aka VDB, (silver / gold), Argyrotype (silver / gold), and Ziatype (palladium / gold / tungsten / platinum). Writer and photography / … Read more
Siderotype Paper Survey: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brownprint, Ziatype v1.0
This detailed paper survey is the Special Edition Art Project effort to document how papers behave when paired with historic Siderotype processes used in our coastal California working environment. The Siderotype processes Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint (silver) aka VDB, and Ziatype (palladium / gold / tungsten / platinum) are the focus of this survey, creating an assessment of a paper’s image density across exposure corrections, amount and type of grain, … Read more
Papers for traditional / classic cyanotype process
Christina Z. Anderson spends her hard earned money ($1613) on paper research for cyanotype papers and generously shares the results. Writer and photography / Christina Z. Anderson Over the last twenty years of practicing alternative processes, good papers for alt have come and gone on the market—Weston Diploma Parchment being one example. Worse, formerly excellent papers have gone the buffered route to increase their archival properties—not good for many of … Read more
Cyanotypes on fabric – preparing the fabric
This article is an excerpt from Ruth Brown’s book Cyanotypes on Fabric. Here Ruth explains how to prepare the fabric for printing.
Beat the blues: Making cyanotypes
Cyanotypes are fun and easy and are the perfect way to begin your exploration of alternative and historical photographic processes.
Cyanotype workshop compendium – free
Download a free Cyanotype workshop compendium. For Cyanotype workshop for beginners using pre coated paper.
A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype
The chapter called “Cyanotype” of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”.
Multi colored cyanotypes
Cyanotypes are usually blue. Or toned into a sepia color. Filipe Alves shows us how to get both blue and sepia into the same cyanotype.
Making a cyanotype pinhole in-camera?
The myth: A pinhole camera cannot be used to make cyanotypes! Malin Fabbri confirms the myth.
How to produce low-contrast cyanotype prints
Angelo Taibi digs out a cyanotype formula to make the prints less contrasty.
Cyanotype chemicals in a rusty old jar
The myth: Don’t use a brush with a metal ferrule! True or not? Malin Fabbri finds out.
Vinegar-developed cyanotypes: non-toxic midtone contrast control
Elizabeth Graves examines acetic acid development upon classic formula cyanotypes and disprove the myths about developing in vinegar.
Vandyke over cyanotype: a combination process with special effects
Elizabeth Graves examines the effects of ageing on the "blue vandyke" process.
Cyanotype photograms
An extract from Ruth Brown’s book Cyanotypes on Fabric, A blueprint on how to produce… Blueprints!
The digital camera, the cyanotype and grain
Jim Read calibrates his digital camera to make cyanotype printing even better.