HISTORICAL WORKSHOPS
CYANOTYPE
Create unique prints using botanicals and photographs.
A photosensitive solution is applied to paper or fabric and allowed to dry. Your chosen botanicals, objects or negatives are then placed on top of the sensitized paper or fabric, and an image is produced using sunlight or a source of UV light. The print is then washed, and can be manipulated and toned after completion.
All materials will be provided.
FEE: PAPER – FROM R700 PER PERSON
FABRIC – FROM R850 PER PERSON
DURATION: Half day
*CYANOTYPE 200 ML STARTER KITS AVAILABLE AT R600 EACH
CERAMIC CYANOTYPE
Create beautiful prints on to Stoneware using botanicals and photographs.
Learn the art of Cyanotype, also known as blue prints or sun prints. Within the workshop, you will use light sensitive chemistry to create botanical and/or photographic images with the use of the sun or artificial UV light. You will have a fun filled day, creating prints on both a stoneware vase, pinch bowl and a tile, which will be supplied to you. Once you have completed the printing process, you will learn how to coffee stain one or more of your chosen artworks. Once completed and dried, you will learn how to make these pieces functional with the use of waterproof sealant and spray glaze. These make beautiful decor pieces for your home, or to gift to someone special.
All materials will be provided.
FEE: FROM R1200 PER PERSON
DURATION: Full day
*CYANOTYPE 200 ML STARTER KITS AVAILABLE AT R600 EACH
ALBUMEN
In this exciting and captivating workshop, students will be transported back in time to 1850, when Albumen printing was invented by Louis Blanquart – Evrard. The process gave better reproduction of detail, a wider tonal range and improved stability over the salted paper process that was in use at the time.
The process begins with coating paper with Albumen (egg white) and Sodium Chloride (tablesalt). After drying, the paper is sensitised with silver nitrate, and an image is contact printed using a negative pressed to the paper and exposed to sunlight or an artificial UV source.
The process produces beautiful images in hues of brown to sepia which can also be toned, typically with gold chloride to affect colour changes and improve permanence. There are prints from 1850 still around today. Students will start their day in 1850 by creating a large format portrait negative on an 8 x 10 inch Deardorff wooden field camera, typical of the style that would have been in use at the time. You will shoot and develop a portrait negative with this historical camera, for later use in the workshop to create your Albumen print masterpiece. While your negative is drying, you will become a Master Chef, break some eggs and whip up your very own Albumen solution to coat your paper with. You will be taught the various coating methods that were in use at the time, and prepare your paper for printing. By this time the class will break for lunch to charge you for the afternoon printing session. After lunch (cost included in the workshop price), you will return to 1850 where your negative and coated paper is dry, and create your portrait masterpiece, where you will be shown how to expose, develop, tone, fix and wash your print.
Voila! Your day in a portrait studio of 1850.
FEE: R3000 PER PERSON
DURATION: Runs over two days
