#DIY

In this video, I demonstrate how to make a simple duotone cyanotype.
Myself and Dr Claudia Mignone discussed the ideas behind our 'In Praise Of Raw Data' project at the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education, organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education. You can see our presentation here:
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To make bleach:
Dissolve 15g of Soda Crystals to 1 Litre of Water, cooled to room temperature. Cyanotype will begin to fade quickly when put into the solution. Do not let the cyanotype fade completely, just let it fade partially.
To make toner:
15g dandelion leaf tea to 1 litre of water, stewed for 30 minutes. Leave to cool and strain before putting in your tray. I toned mine for 10 minutes.
You can see a whole video on toning cyanotypes here:
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You can see a whole video on how to make cyanotypes here:
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Cyanotype Toning: Using Botanicals to Tone Blueprints Naturally By Annette Golaz (Book)
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There is a great youtuber who goes through the entire duotone cyanotype process in lots of detail here:
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Prussian Blue Video on making negatives for the duotone cyanotype process:
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See the 'In Praise of Raw Data' project on my website:
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My practice-based PhD thesis and portfolio: researchonline...
You can find out more about my collaborator Dr Claudia Mignone here:
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You can see some great videos with Alyssa Pagan and Joe De Pasquale, showing how they produce their astronomical images on the @LaunchPadAstronomy page:
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More info on collaborators here:
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Salon Margate: salonmargate.com/
The 'In Praise of Raw Data' project has been primarily supported by Canterbury Christ Church University, in addition to financial support from my Patreon subscribers.
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Hope you find it interesting! Please do let me know if you give it a go, and remember this is a work in progress :P
Music: Eternal Garden by Dan Henig

[@JeffRAllenCH]

Congrats on the doctorate!

[@MelanieKing]

@@JeffRAllenCH thank you! It took me a while 😅

[@liveinaweorg]

Beautiful! A wonderful way to show elements of our galaxy. Thank you.

[@MelanieKing]

@@liveinaweorg thank you so much !

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Thank you for sharing the process. I am definitely going to be trying this!
My partner is going to do Cyanotypes in art school as well, so I expect to be doing it soon-ish as well

[@MelanieKing]

@@WouterWeggelaar great! Let me know how they get on 😄