ART & FINDING YOUR VOICE @ QCJC

The arts program is back with @queenscjc and Miss JP and we are jumping back into programming with Cyanotypes. We love this medium because it allows you to experiment and come up with ideas that you can practice within one session. We also love it because this is an affordable and accessible art practice that anyone can try out and do at home. We talked about identity and where we are from while we worked on our first experimental cyanotype inspired by some of the greats in this like Ivan Forde, Christopher Blay, Tokie Rome Taylor, and Whitney Barnes. Excited for next session!

Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes we know of, and has a distinctive blue color. Cyanotypes are made by treating a surface — paper, cloth or leather — with iron salts which then react to UV light. Originally used to document botanical specimens by placing them on treated papers and exposing them to the sun, it was also an early way to create copies of drawings, especially architectural drawings – thus the name “blueprints.”