Cyanotypes at Home: Art and Science with Conservator Julie Wertz

Explore the science and process of cyanotypes with conservation scientist Julie Wertz as she demonstrates how you can make them at home.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:
+ Prussian Blue Pigment, Manufactured by F. Weber & Company, Inc. 1927. The Forbes Pigment Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Straus.6. hvrd.art/o/324195
+ Paul Rowell, American, “Looking N. From roof of Forest Hills Station” from Boston Transit Collection, July 19, 1909. Cyanotype. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston Transit Collection, 5.2002.696. hvrd.art/o/143677
+ “Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. New York City: Methods of Cheap Construction of Dwellings: Semi-Detached Two-flat Houses of Hollow Tile Construction: House No. 390. Standard Buildings Inc., Seventy East Fourty-Fifth St. New York City” from Social Museum Collection, 1913. Cyanotype. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection, 3.2002.1967. hvrd.art/o/153260
+ Sheila Pepe, American, "Photogram Projection B. 4," 1998. Cyanotype with black ink, black and gray wash, over a cyanotype on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 1999.111. © Sheila Pepe hvrd.art/o/191744
+ Anna Atkins, "British Algae Cyanotype Impressions," 1843. Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1843-10. digitalcollections.nypl.org/it...
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MATERIALS LIST:
+ Potassium Ferricyanide (www.jacquardproducts.com/cyan...)
+ Ferric Ammonium Citrate (www.jacquardproducts.com/cyan...)
+ Paper
+ Glass (without UV Coating)
+ Foam Brush
+ Mixing Containers
+ Light-Proof Folder or Bag
+ Gloves
+ Cardboard
+ Water Tray
+ Water
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Speaker: Julie Wertz, Beal Family Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation Science, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
This video is part of our Harvard Art Museums at Home: Art Talks series in which curators, conservators, fellows, and graduate students share short, informal videos that offer an up-close look at works from our collections.
© President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: Julie Wertz. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at [e-mail].

[@Wildevis]

I did photography as a subject as an Art student and had my own darkroom at home so this was absolutely fascinating. I never knew it was so relatively easy to make your own cyanotype prints. I also did a diploma in Architecture and did some stunning perspective drawings I had printed on transparent film to use as a negative for further printing on art paper to render in colour and I am dying to do a cyanotype print with that image

[@italitally2989]

She's hot.