Cyanotype | Emily Jeffords | The Crafter's Box

Cyanotype Art Workshop

Name: Cyanotype Art Workshop
SKU: WKSP201704
Price: 80.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$80

In this workshop, you’ll explore the chemistry of blueprints and the power of the sun with artist Emily Jeffords. Emily shares the process of cyanotype with a step-by-step guide on how she creates beautiful pieces of art using foliage and found objects. Utilizing a mixture of chemicals, the action of light, and a mastery of techniques, you’ll get to create inspiring silhouettes. This workshop includes Emily’s technique in a video tutorial and an accompanying box of tools and materials including Emily’s preferred thick cotton paper and chemicals to process cyanotype art curated through a small business collaboration with a US-based photo studio.

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that dates back to the mid-1800s that was frequently used by engineers as an effective process to produce copies of drawings (or blueprints). The process uses two chemicals: ammonium ferric citrate and potassium ferricyanide. In this workshop, we are using hot pressed watercolor paper that is sturdy enough to withstand a coating of these chemicals (frequently referred to as Chemical A + Chemical B) as well as a water bath before the finished print is produced.

This workshop includes:

Tools and materials to create several cyanotype pieces
A detailed, digital workshop on the techniques and execution of cyanotype art
A live & recorded Maker Chat Q&A with our artist

The tools & materials in our cyanotype kit include:

A selection of sturdy, thick, hot pressed 100% cotton paper to experiment with
A kit of cyanotype chemical processing liquids: ammonium ferric citrate and potassium ferricyanide
A paint brush for application
A black bag to help aide in your portable darkroom
A custom white frame to fit a finished 8×10″ cyanotype artwork piece

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Difficulty:: Beginner
Make Time:: An afternoon (plus prep/dry time)
Kit Type:: Workshop

Cyanotype Chemicals | Emily Jeffords | The Crafter's Box

Cyanotype Chemicals Set

This materials kit offers a new set of type A & B cyanotype chemicals for more making this summer. It's paired wonderfully with our paper packet kits!

Please note that this materials kit is only available to those that have participated in Emily's cyanotype workshop. Purchasing this materials kit does not grant access to the original workshop video, this materials kit is an opportunity to grow and expand using the original workshop tools & techniques.

Happy experimenting!

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100% Cotton Napkins - 20" x 20"

For more making and to build on the first set of six cloth napkins shared in each original workshop kit, we've created an add-on kit to help expand your cloth napkin set.

Our Cloth Napkin Add-On Kit Includes:

six additional 100% cotton cloth napkins featuring wide hems and seamed mitered corners (we love these guys)

Cotton is a natural, sustainable resource that takes indigo dye (and all natural dyes) so beautifully! We're excited to explore with cotton as our featured fabric material in April.

Please note that this materials kit is only available to those that have participated in our shibori dying workshop. Purchasing this materials kit does not grant access to the original workshop video, this materials kit is an opportunity to grow and expand using the original workshop tools & techniques.

Happy continued making, everyone!

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Hot Pressed Cotton Paper - 12 Sheets

Ready for more cyanotype exploration? This materials kit offers an additional packet of 12 pieces of 10x11" cyanotype paper (same paper and size as our original workshop but with a slightly larger number of sheets to experiment with). We are exploring with Emily Jeffords' workshop further by creating more cyanotype art!

This kit includes:

12 sheets of 10x11" Stonehenge Aqua professional hot pressed cotton paper, a blend of 640gsm & 300gsm in white

Please note that this materials kit is intended for those that have participated in Emily's cyanotype workshop. Purchasing this materials kit does not grant access to the original workshop video, this materials kit is an opportunity to grow and expand using the original workshop tools & techniques.

Happy experimenting!

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EMILY JEFFORDS
CYANOTYPE ART

This workshop includes Emily's technique in a video tutorial and an accompanying box of tools and materials (including Emily's preferred thick cotton paper, the tools & chemicals to process cyanotype art (through a small business collaboration with a US-based photo studio), and a classic white wooden frame to show off your favorite piece (also in partnership with a small mom & pop shop we're excited to support).

More About the Artist: Emily Jeffords

Emily lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her husband and two daughters, and works out of an 1890’s white-washed studio called the White Whale. She most frequently works with oil on canvas and is best known for her abstract, impressionistic landscape paintings as well as her delicate cyanotype collages. “Painting brings me so much peace and gives me time to meditate on the beauty in the world and the grace I feel while living in it. My highest goal is to convey that same peace and grace to the viewer. I create art to satisfy a need deep in my soul to create, to use my hands to say, with color and form, something that my words cannot."

We look forward to seeing what beautiful shapes inspire you and what finished works of art you create using the process of cyanotype. Happy creative making!