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Re: cyanoboat

I'd love to see that, Gordon.  Any chance you could put a photo of it on 
the web?

Gregg

At 04:44 PM 8/28/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Just spent the afternoon cyanotyping a boat.
>
>A friend had just finished making a small boat with a white fabric hull.
>I had got him into alt-photo earlier this year.
>
>He decided he wanted to decorate the boat with a cyanotype photogram
>stripe.
>
>We coated a stripe  the goes from the top down 4 inches the length of the
>boat.
>
>To do the photogram.  We layed out a strip of 4 inch wide packing
>tape as long as the boat sticky side up.  With the help of 6 kids we
>placed a bunch of different leaves etc along the tape.
>
>We then lifted the tape with the objects on it and taped it to the coated
>portion of the boat, put the boat in the sun and left it there for 20
>minutes.  Then put it in the shade, pulled the tape off and developed the
>cyanotype by hosing it down with water.
>
>It looks good - a nice blue stripe with leaf shapes etc along the top edge
>of the boat.
>
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