When I've made cyanotypes with a class before - to give them a taste of early photography - after a good dose of Anna Atkins - it's always been a terrific success, and everyone - well, most people - have gone home with a a real artwork memento. Not today. Not at all. I probably should have tried a test one or two just before class, to see how long we should be exposing them for under a sky that was sometimes cloudy, sometimes sunny - I think we all over-exposed, and it was a ridiculous disappointment. One cyanotype sheet even went floating away, with a petal on top, over the campus water feature. Ah well ...
Oh no! But I'm sure students still learned a lot... and that they were delighted to be outside.
ReplyDeleteit was a postponed session from a *very* cloudy and damp day earlier in the semester, or I'd have scheduled another try ... I think they learned not to try this when it was windy ...
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