“In Exploring Cyanotype as a Visual Practice”, you are invited to work with botanicals, photographic images, textiles, and paper while learning both the technical foundations and the expressive possibilities of this legacy process. We will explore cyanotype as a language, moving between precision and chance, control and experimentation, allowing space for curiosity and discovery.
Throughout the course, I will guide you step by step through preparing your materials, understanding exposure, creating digital negatives, working with plants and images, toning, and experimenting with wet cyanotype techniques. Along the way, we will reflect on the history of cyanotype, its connection to nature, and how to develop a personal visual voice within this medium shaped by individual choices made during the cyanotype process.
This course is designed for creatives who are drawn to slow processes, tactile work, and meaningful image making. Whether you are new to cyanotype or looking to deepen your practice, you will leave with a clear technical foundation, a body of experimental work, and a renewed relationship with light, time, and material.
Early Registration is open for Cyanotype as a Visual Practice with Reyes Boluda. Early Registration price is $52 and will go full price ($98) on April 3rd at 11:59pm MT. The course begins on May 8th @ 5am MT. The course has 4 hours of content. Come and read all about it. All videos are downloadable, lifetime access* and closed captioned.
Techniques Taught
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- Preparing and mixing cyanotype chemistry safely
- Coating paper, fabric, and ceramic surfaces with cyanotype solution
- Controlling exposure using natural UV light
- Rinsing and developing cyanotype prints properly
- Troubleshooting exposure and development issues
- Creating botanical cyanotypes using real plants
- Designing and printing digital negatives for cyanotype
- Printing photographic images in cyanotype
- Applying wet cyanotype techniques for experimental effects
- Toning cyanotype prints using natural materials
- Adjusting pH to modify tonal outcomes
- Adding hand stitching to finished cyanotype prints
Meet Reyes
I am a Spanish visual artist working with both analog and digital processes, collage, and mixed media. My practice centers on portraiture as a space of identity, memory, and presence. I work intuitively, allowing materials, time, and chance to guide the process. Archival photographs, found documents, drawing, and painterly gesture coexist in my work, creating visual constructions that balance intimacy and distance, fragility and resilience. My portraits are not meant to describe a person, but to construct a visual presence. They explore how personal and collective histories surface through gesture, texture, and form. Cyanotype holds a special place in my practice. I am drawn to it as an ancient and almost magical way of writing with light, where chemistry, time, and nature collaborate in unpredictable ways. The moment of revelation, when the image emerges in water, continues to feel like a quiet act of wonder and transformation. I live and work between Spain and the UK, developing my work through independent practice, collaborative projects, and an ongoing exploration of material-based processes.
Early Registration is open for Cyanotype as a Visual Practice with Reyes Boluda. Early Registration price is $52 and will go full price ($98) on April 3rd at 11:59pm MT. The course begins on May 8th @ 5am MT. The course has 4 hours of content. Come and read all about it. All videos are downloadable, lifetime access* and closed captioned.
Early Registration is open for Cyanotype as a Visual Practice with Reyes Boluda. Early Registration price is $52 and will go full price ($98) on April 3rd at 11:59pm MT. The course begins on May 8th @ 5am MT. The course has 4 hours of content. Come and read all about it. All videos are downloadable, lifetime access* and closed captioned.
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