Jensen_cyan

Kaleidoscope - by Samantha Haedrich **1** Cyanotype grass photograph - by Mike Wride **2** Cyanotype on paper - Joseph J. Mcallister **3**




 * 1**-In kaleidoscope by Samantha Haedrich, the image is printed on paper and appears to be a real cyanotype. What really caught my eye was the cylinder shape and the triangle figure that's located in the circle. I really liked the way the picture imitated a kaleidoscope. It makes you wonder what the image they used to base their cyanotype off of looked like because the picture is darker where and lighter in places that really bend your mind because the whole time your looking at this piece your trying to make out a little kaleidoscope. Its almost like what your eyes see and your mind perceives is different! Anyways, What the artist really did a good job on the image was unity, everything just comes together really well and nothing needs to be added. Although theirs a lot of empty space in the piece, it's okay because your drawn to the subject and you forget and pay no attention to the wasted space. The main composition technique that was used was leading lines because the lines from the cylinder lead you through the image and back out of it. Last the biggest element the artist portrayed in the image was shape, the cylinder the triangle and the circle all come together and become a kaleidoscope.


 * 2**- In Cyanotype grass photograph by Mike Wride, the image is a photo gram printed on paper. Basically actual objects are placed on the paper before the image is exposed and when you take the objects off it appears white. In this case the wheat was placed on the paper before it was exposed to sunlight and when the wheat was taken off the wheat shape appeared white on the paper thus making this print. In This print the wheat fills the frame so that theirs really no wasted space and it has unity because the wheat pieces all come together and without one of the wheat.. it just would look wrong. This image also shows leading lines because the wheat takes you in the picture and back out as the wheat leads you off the paper. It shows great contrast because the background is blue and the wheat is white it's what basically makes the picture.


 * 3**- In Cyanotype on paper by Joseph J. Mcallister, the image is a basic cyanotype most likely printed on a paper. This was personally my favorite out of the images I picked because it really showed me what cyanotypes can do to a normal photograph. I guess if you had the normal photo of this woman she was probably happy and more along the lines of beautiful and glowing because it's her wedding day. however if you look at it, the picture is mysterious and her eyes are dark and it looks as if maybe shes attending a funeral and her smile speaks evil like maybe shes a ghost that died on her wedding day. You see this is a cyanotype that sparked my interest because it can be interpreted so many different ways! this print shows great contrast because the darkness to the picture really makes you think more dark and evil and the lighter parts of the print on her dress tell you that it's an old fashioned wedding dress. Filling the frame was also the case in this picture because theirs a lot of things to look at in this picture and absolutely no empty space. Emphasis was the principal that mad e this picture because everything in the picture goes back to her eyes and her smile, the light from her smile and dress just draw you in and your forced to see her evil look.