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Building on the skills of the previously held cyanotype workshop, this workshop will focus on photographic imagery, using vintage glass negatives I’ve collected in France over the years.
Students also have an opportunity, before the workshop begins, to create one of their own photos into a negative image that can be printed in cyan. In this workshop, we will also explore toning our prints in a variety of solutions, which will leave us with imagery in multiple color ways.
Cyanotype is an alternative photographic process used to create prints in the distinctive shade of Prussian blue and white without the use of a camera, exposed with the sun and developed in water.
The resulting prints are lasting records of your creative process on that particular day, recorded in the blue and white palette of the ocean and sky that we’re so lucky to live near.
This workshop will review the fundamentals of the cyanotype process and will culminate with each participant creating their own original cyanotype prints from nature, objects, and vintage glass negatives that produce images of our human history.
All materials will be provided. If you have materials you’d like to bring to use for printing (sentimental objects, dried botanicals, etc), please feel free to bring them.
Space is very limited!
ABOUT MOLLY C. MENG
Molly C. Meng studied literature with a personal minor in collecting other people's lives. An obsession with old ledgers, vintage photos. and every single discarded book that exists, her work reimagines the untold stories behind the otherwise forgotten items of every day.
A self-taught artist, the medium of collage in both paper and textiles is Molly's dominant form of communicating. She successfully weaves the elements of ephemera and storytelling into each piece she creates.
The spectacular beauty of the ordinary is elevated with detail in her work. Molly's work has shown nationally in both museums and galleries located in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Wisconsin and Montana. She has produced large scale commissions for interior designers, personal homes and a number of Prometheus apartment complexes in Northern California.
Other than creating her own artwork, Molly helps adults and young people lean into their unique talent by teaching creative workshops around the U.S. as well as on an annual retreat in the South of France. Molly C. Meng is currently living and working in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.