My first cyanotype

I made my first cyanotype today at a local print festival. This is a printing process that uses photo-sensitive paper and chemicals to produce a blue-colored print.

The first step is arranging items on the paper. Then you put a pane of glass on top to keep everything in place. This setup has to sit for about 5 minutes, like exposure time for the paper.

Nature imagery and designs arranged on a piece of paper, with a pane of glass on top.

Then the paper gets washed in water. For this specific paper, you can put a few drops of hydrogen peroxide on the page and wipe it over the surface to make the blue more saturated.

After drying (easy in a heatwave) and flattening the paper, it looks like this.

A blue paper features white designs, including a swirling sun, small leaves, a crescent moon, a large leaf, and a dragonfly.