This is part of a project for my Adv Photography II. The three projects I proposed for the semester all involved handmaking silk, bamboo, and soy silk paper. The three processes I decided to use were polaroid lifts, vandyke brown, and cyanotype.
This is a cyanotype I did a few days ago and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I had to make all the chemicals for both the cyanotype and vandyke brown processes and I thought for sure I screwed them up but nope they came out just fine! I did two vandyke browns yesterday and I'm not very pleased with them as the contrast is not nearly as nice and the images are not dark enough. I think I will need to expose them outside for longer and maybe make my negatives more contrasty.

Made on processed silk fiber. (the others are bamboo)


Process
Purchased Processed Fiber (Bamboo, Tussah Silk, and SoySilk)
Used a Process called Silk Fusion
Created Digital Negatives with Pictorico Premium OHP Transparency Film
Purchased chemicals for Cyanotypes and Vandyke browns. I mixed each set of chemicals and applied the emulsion to the paper. After the paper was dry I overlayed the digital negatives over the paper and exposed them to UV light from the sun outside.