This is a beginner-friendly class. Josephine McCormick, artist and printmaker, will demonstrate each stage of the cyanotype process, provide samples, and offer you support and advice throughout the day. You will also be given a handbook for your reference. Cyanotype is an early photographic process which produces a cyan-coloured print. On this course you will explore the possibilities for creating both cyanotypes from botanicals and photograms from found flat objects. You will use both a UV exposure unit and natural sunlight to expose your cyanotypes. We will supply all the materials you need; however, you are very welcome to bring your own botanicals, flat objects, lace or flat jewellery to make your cyanotypes with. By the end of the course, you will have a selection of beautiful cyanotypes to take home. It is a wonderfully flexible, simple and beautiful print process! The process was invented in 1842 by Sir John F. W. Herschel and it is in Herschel’s writings that we find the first use of the word’s photography, emulsion, positive, snapshot and negative. The most famous early adopter of the cyanotype was the English botanist, Anna Atkins. The process was also adopted by engineers and architects in the 20 th century as a way of producing copies of drawings – hence the term ‘blueprint’. 

Course structure: 

• Explanation of the technique with examples. 

• Coating paper with solution. 

• Creating images using botanicals and found flat objects 

• Exposing with UV exposure unit. 

• Exposing with sunlight. 

• Washing out the image

Cost: £75 (max of 6 participants)