Cyanotype, toe tattoos and blue crime scenes...

I experimented with cyanotype, applying photo chemicals to silk scarves, laying a variety of objects on the fabric, then exposing it to the sun.

Cut glass above, botanicals to the right and below, then plastic animals and barware.

                                                                                                                                                            Collateral damage. I wore gloves, but I didn't anticipate the dripping onto my toes. Cyanotype is not dye, it is a photograph, so have I just given myself a toes tattoo?                                                                                                                                                                   

When I taught young art students, we would sometimes use permanent marker. Invariably someone would get it on their hands and panic,"Mrs. Wayne, it's permanent!" "Don't worry," I would say, "when you are walking down the aisle on your wedding day, you will not have Sharpie on your fingers."

The ratty shirt I work in I think was improved by the spatter. I can't say the same for the floor in my studio. Have I been watching too much Dateline, or does this look like a Prussian blue crime scene?