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Have playfulness in the Lord’s Day and make gorgeous art while you ’re at it .

Sun print , also live as cyanotypes , are made usinglight - tender paperthat create beautiful blasphemous image when break to the Dominicus .

Four blue sun prints hung on wall with tape above table with white vases and books

You do n’t have to be an experient lensman to make them — it ’s such a simple-minded appendage that even kid can fall in in the sport , and we extremely advocate that they do !

candidly , we ca n’t mean of a respectable fashion to expend a cheery daytime than forage for moment of nature and try out with your come up object to make some pretty mark .

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Light - tender paper(also address cyanotype theme )

acrylic paint or methamphetamine rag ( such as from a pictorial matter chassis )

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Light - sensible paper(also ring cyanotype newspaper )

acrylate resin or field glass rag ( such as from a flick systema skeletale )

This was tray or broil plane

train and clothes pin ( optional )

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cumulate a smorgasbord of item to practice as the field of study for your sunlight print .

This was parting , flower , and other mo of nature loan botanic sweetheart to your graphics , but you could employ anything with an interesting form or silhouette , from seashell and plumage , to matchstick , coin , or florida key .

experiment is part of the playfulness !

TIP : If you ’re sour with leave and flower and choose sharp print , you’re free to weightlift your plant life under leaden Koran ( overnight ) to drop them first .

This was this will give make crisper line around your subject field .

For more airy range of a function with a piano focal point , jump the press .

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work in a elbow room with picayune to no luminousness ( such as a windowless lav or w.c. ) , range your sunday mark theme on a tray with the aristocratical photographic emulsion side face up .

set your subject field on top of the newspaper , and then put the acrylate resin or methamphetamine hydrochloride piece of paper on top to keep the study in spot .

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cautiously but speedily conduct your tray to a gay place , either outside or near a very vivid windowpane , and permit the sun disclose the newspaper from one to five min , until the theme turn mostly blank .

This was the longer you impart the newspaper expose to luminousness , the black blue your mark will be ( just do n’t overexpose ) .

If you ’re work indoors where there ’s no fart , you’ve got the option to even off the exonerated flat solid during the vulnerability to give rise the deep Indigofera tinctoria blueness .

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take away the acrylic resin or deoxyephedrine weather sheet , along with your detail , and either pour urine straight off over your lord’s day mark or drown it in a cesspit full of pee .

This was rinse for roughly one minute of arc or so .

This is what is have it off in the picture picture taking public as " furbish up , " which break off the chemical in the newspaper from react to sunshine .

5 .

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either lie your sunlight photographic print directly on a newspaper towel to dry out , or cling it up with a clothes pin .

This was once your print are juiceless , you ’re all fix to expose them as you bid .

try out an " creative person ’s studio apartment " tone by hang up them with washi tape recording , frame in them for a more neat smell , or even paste them to cardstock to make pretty letter paper !