With Silvi Glattauer
Wed 1 March 2023
9.30 am - 4.00 pm
Price: $295– including all materials
6 max participants
This 1 day workshop will teach you the basic techniques for making Cyanotype prints using found objects and / or your own photographs.
The Cyanotype process is a historical photographic process that produces a deep blue / cyan print. This workshop will cover the basics for making a print in a simple manner so that you can re-create the technique at home.
We will also cover toning techniques that will shift the tones of your print from deep blue to purples and sepia tones.
The Cyanotype was originally Invented by Sir John Herschel in 1841 and then adopted by Anna Atkins in her photograms of plants and seaweed for her books on botany (1843–55).
The Prussian Blue print is made using a sensitising solution of iron salts, that when exposed to natural or sunlight, are reduced to their ferrous state, producing a high contrast blue image when oxidised. Oxidation is hastened by immersion in running water, which also washes away the unused iron salts.
Silvi Glattauer is a professional practicing photographer with a particular interest in non-silver alternative processes. Specialising in the photogravure process using non-toxic photopolymer plates, she finds that the combination of traditional printmaking with photographic images gives her work an added dimension that further develops the use of photography in fine art practice. Glattauer also has a background in the adult education sector with extensive experience in co-ordinating and running workshops. Alongside running workshops at The Baldessin Press for the past 20 years, she has taught photographic fine art printmaking at RMIT and Melbourne Polytechnic in Melbourne.
You are advised to book early to avoid disappointment. This workshop will take a maximum of 8 people.
Price: $295– including all materials
What you should bring:
Digital files
Apron
Disposable gloves
Your laptop if you have one
A USB stick
Lunch (tea & coffee provided)
Workshop Cancellations & Refunds
We understand that circumstances can change. A full workshop refund will be offered:
· if a workshop in which you are enrolled is cancelled or deferred to a date unsuitable for your attendance. This may be the case if a Covid lockdown is announced.
· upon receipt of an email indicating your intention to withdraw your enrolment when notice is provided to us at least three weeks in advance of the workshop start date.
Workshop Credit - Transfers
We are happy to transfer your enrolment to a future workshop, but this will depend on availability of studio space and three weeks notice being given to us.
Please note:
On CODE RED days The Baldessin Press and Studio will be closed and no classes or activities will run.
On TOTAL FIRE BAN days The Baldessin Press and Studio will normally remain open, and staff will monitor official advice and weather. If weather escalates staff will consider cancelling activities. Any decision to cancel any workshops during the course of Total Fire Ban days will be made as a result of a notice from CFA of a “Watch and Act” or “Emergency Warning” affecting that area.
Please note that The Baldessin Press and Studio are NOT designated Safer Places, or Places of Last Resort
