Cyanotype is a printing process that creates a cyan-blue print used by engineers in the 20th century as it was a low cost and simple process producing copies of drawings referred to as blueprints. Within this process there is the use of two chemicals being Ferric Ammonium and Potassium Ferricyanide. These are the two chemicals that are mixes and brushed onto the paper that is then exposed and creates the print.

To print onto acetate through the bypass tray on the printer, for it to come out better, I flipped the image and inverted it and printed it onto acetate paper and placed it onto the paper with the chemicals.

These are the Chemicals used, mixing them together in a pot and using a brush to coat the paper in the chemicals. I put it on all of the paper, but next time I do it I will put it on so the edges are a bit softer and see the different outcome. I then dried the paper as it won't work if its wet.

To make the Cyanotypes, I collected objects which light cannot pass through such as leaves and flowers, which I had pressed and so it creates a silhouette of the object which is what I did with my plants.

Or an abject which through light can partially pass - this is what I did when I printed onto the acetate and did a print of it onto the paper. As the acetate paper, light can partially pass through as its plastic.

Here, places the objects onto the light sensitive paper and then placed them into the UV light box and the UV light reacts and exposes the chemicals and when it's washed it oxidises to create the Prussian blue image, which is what I did here. Putting the images into the UV light box for about 30-40 minutes, then taking them out and washing them out to create the final prints, the drying them on a rack.

These are the prints that I ended up with, for the first one I used acetate and used the bypass tray to print the inverted image onto.

I turned out a bit blurry, but it works quite well as it is abstract in a way and in a way the blur creates a hazy look almost calming which I really like.

I'm going to drop these onto Photoshop and see how they work as possibly front covers for my Photo books. I really like how the one with the singular fern on it turned out.