Colorado Alpine Flower One quilt Mixed Media

Mixed Media

Creating this series of mini paintings was a joyful journey of experimentation and progress for me

5" x 7″ image

taking into account the opacity

10" x 8" on paper

Colorado Alpine Flower One quilt Mixed MediaCyanotype on watercolor paper 10 x 8 on paper, surrounded with white 14 x 11 acid free mat board. Alpine Flower One is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper. These hardy perennials grow in my Colorado high alpine garden. I love them both for their cone shaped flowers that turn into hundreds of little seeds at the season's end. The deer hate them, so they don't eat them either, another plus Cyanotypes are one of photographys oldest