The making of our Sun-prints for the Art Auction.
1. We gathered our Sunprint paper, acrylic sheet, a tray filled with water, and we chose our favorite toys.
2. We arranged our objects on a piece of Sunprint paper and left it out in the sun for about 10 minutes.
3. We rinsedyour Sunprint in water, watched the white turn into blue and the blue turn into white!
5. We put our Sunprint flat on an absorbent surface and allowed it to dry.
6. Our Sunprints on display at the Art Auction.
The Morning after the Art Auction, the google doodle was a Sunprint!
March 16 would have been Anna Atkins 216th birthday. Atkins used a version of "sun-printing" to create a book of photographed botanical specimens. The method she used is called the Cyanotype technique. It is an iron-based chemical method that created a white image appearing on a blue background. Exposure to sunlight is required for the process to work correctly, hence "sun-printing".
Morah Leah
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