Working With an Accident

This hand-tinted cyanotype began as an iPhone photograph of the centre of a bowl/plate that someone left out on their lawn. But when I made the digital negative to make the cyanotype contact print I forgot to invert it, so the negative was a positive.

I decided to go with it, and tired hand-tinting the “negative” cyanotype with watercolour pigments. Here is the results.

Note: instead of just scanning the print, I just took a photo of the entire thing.

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