Bookmark Design: Using the Cyanotype Process

1. Intro: for this class, we will be making some beautiful bookmark the signs using the same type process. I'm excited when I'm about to teach you because I love books and making Santa type prints. So I thought making bookmarks will be a fun way to explore the Santa type process. Hi, my name is Diana, graphic designer, photographer and artists based in San Antonio, Texas. In this class, you will learn how to design and create a unique bookmark. Using the Sana type process, you will be provided a list of all materials and tools you will need for the project. This steps will be divided in individual lessons. This class will be fun and easy to follow. I promise this class is open to all levels, with or without prior experience or knowledge of the sign a type process. But if you want to learn a little bit more about science type, wash my class, creating botanical art intro to Sana type process. So if this all sounds is interesting to you, watch the next video 2. Class Project: for the class project trade your very own Bookmark the signs using the steps you learn from the class. Take photos of the bookmarks you've created and share them in the class project section. Also share your experience and what you want to great next. After learning the Sana type process in the class discussion, feel free to ask any questions. Have fun learning, and I can't wait to see what you create. 3. Materials & Tools: So here are the materials that you will need to create your bookmark design. I have in this sign a type mixture. Kip, here, you can get this kid from Amazon or your local art store, uh, flat brush. You're measuring cup and a smaller want. So when we grade our mixture ruler a bone folder. Now the bone folder is not necessary for this class. I just use this because it's easy to use it to full the paper. But you can also use your ruler when we pulled the paper. Damn Master t hole puncher paperclips for your contact print. And this is a contact print that I have here. This is just a eight by 10 um, piece of glass in a cardboard that I got from an old picture frame. You can get one from a dollar story. You don't have one at home stream dried plants and feathers that you can use for to the signs. You are also free to use any kind of materials that you want to use for your design and lastly, your watercolor paper. And that's it for all the materials that you will need for the carry the bookmark. This line 4. Paper Cutting: All right. So for this lesson, I will show you how to cut your paper. What I have here are papers that I already cut and ready to be since Thais for or to bookmark the signs. Um, this is gonna be a really simple step to cut your paper. What I have here is a 11 by 7/2 paper and with this size can cut for for the spices. So we will start with holding this in half, so make sure you press it down so it doesn't move, and you will take your bone folder, press it down, start to hold it like so, And we will take this part of the bone folder and we'll start scoring down this flip. It won't do that. And then we're gonna open the creeper, hold it again inside the same stuff with All right, So she is ready. Cut. Now you're gonna take your rover. You will use this side and press it all the way down. Make sure you mind it to where you fool did it down. You said as a guy and carefully start tearing. Your people don't groups fast. Just like that. All right, That's simple. So now cut this in half. We're gonna cut it in half again. That way you will get this size, Sam step. Now we have that a mine. Last year, we're gonna take your phone and press it down. Do the whole starts Corn your feet first. Flip it again. Been do the other side. But that down go and take your ruler again and slowly start So you and this is how you get to cut your paper. 5. Sensitizing: all right. And for this class, we're gonna create our mixture, and I will show you how it's done. So we will take our chemicals will start with our part eight, the potassium fair cyanide. And we will take our little measuring cup. Um, it's up to you. How much you want to make? Um, for me? I will be making more science type print. So I'm gonna go ahead and fill this up all the way to the rim like this, and then pour it into the measuring cup. Close this right away and take part B, which is your bare ammonium cypress. Same amount. A way to the rim for that. To our measuring cup. A mixture you typically want O make this mixture in a very dark room. But for the sake of this video, so you guys can see what I'm doing. Um, I'm in my home studio, and I closed all my blinds, all my windows. So it's slightly dim in here, not to bride. So there's no direct sunlight where my mixture is exposed. So we're gonna take our flat brush and use that to slyly mix chemicals together. And this ISS we'll take our watercolor paper. Make sure that you are You seeing the rough part of the water colored paper? That's the part that's aside that you use to get that nice texture. Look, and then we will go ahead and coat our paper. It's like this. Quote it and you can be as creative as you want on your brush drugs. So, um, for this one, I'm not coating the entire paper and we'll set that aside. Did Barbara? She can the same step. All right. And that's it for coding. Our paper are sensitizing our paper and I'll see you next video. 6. Design: All right, so now that our paper are coated, papers are dry. This is what they look like. Like water killer paper. They're awesome. So it and seek through and back. But so these are dry, and it's ready for, um for us to decorate. Uh, decorated do art This sign. So I have my contact, Frank. Right here. Ready as well. So for just a sign, I I want to go ahead and try something different. Typically used some of my dry plants, but for this one, I am going to use a feather and a stream. So for the string, this is But I'm just gonna wrap. I ran. So we're gonna take this. Probably gonna place it. No one like this way. So you have the option. Teoh, use masking tape to tape them edged or just the corner of your paper so it doesn't move around. Um, that's one option. But if you feel like you have control of your paper in the design that you are using on, you feel that the contact print can just pulled it down for you Then there's no need for the masking tape. So now that the the sign and the paper are in place. You have the glass over it. We're gonna take our clips, and then we're gonna use it to hold it all together If you feel like you need or you can also use for the other two sides Um, what's what happened? Oh, there. This. Okay, go. So now we are gonna go and expose this outside the Sonnier of it. Bright blue color. You wanted to do it in a very Sunday. All right, I will take this outside and exposed this for about 3 3.5 minutes. 7. Exposure: All right. So I'm outside my place right now, and I have the contact prints flat on the ground and this he could see its exposed directly to the sun. Um, looks less to say, but it's been exposed, sir. A minute anyway, So I just want to show you what it looks like when you expose it. So I wanna make sure it's full exposed there. Nothing blocking it, not even a shadow, because that will affect your design. So you want to make sure it's from any any type of object that will block it from the site . So I'm gonna expose this for about 3.5 minutes. 8. Development: All right. So this is what it looks like after I took up the feather in this string that I wrapped around, Um, this two designs are ready to be developed, and we're gonna take it in this water or we call it back. This is in my kitchen sinks. Anyway, so I have to that I prepared. Um, I'm just gonna go ahead and drop this to in here. You have to do it individually. You can just do it. Sinus. No one that way, wrapped with a string actually came out nicely. So we're just gonna keep rinsing this, Make sure all that he loves this is a nice came up. Really nice. Even with the cloud slightly covered, the sun for a second still came out nice. All right, so I have a secret that I like to share with you guys. I didn't add into the materials and tools, but for those who are been watching the entire class, here's something for you. So in this bad, I have water in here, and I also added, um, hydrogen peroxide. This has always been, uh, healthful chemical. That a sanitized part is that uses in their exposure and what it does. It helps bring out the color more vividly. So I added a few drops in this water. So now this to are pretty much done. Um, we're gonna move it in here. We're gonna leave it in there, or probably about a minute. See how it made with blue a little bit darker. That's the effect of the hydrogen peroxide. Um, with the chemicals with science time chemicals, I have a make sure they stay in there. All right, So once this art to are done, that was my timer, huh? We're going to go and make sure to hang this to dry. We're gonna let it dry. Um, shouldn't take long for paper. I think it drives about an hour. That could be wrong, but it doesn't take long for it to dry. So you want to make sure you hang this dry like this, not flat on the surface. Otherwise, my not dry right away. So you make sure that you can This way. Um, So I'm gonna leave this here for maybe 30 more seconds, and then I'm gonna hang it dry. All right. So I'll see in the next video 9. Finishing Touch: Okay, so now that are bookmarked signs are dry. I'm about to show you how to attach your strain to your bookmarks. And that will be the finishing touch for this project. So for this, you'll need your ruler, your hole puncher. A pair of sisters in your strain. Um, I already got some of this strains. It's up to you. How long you wanna use for your bookmarks? So for me, I forgot how I think minus about about 11 inches. So after you cut your strings, grab your hole puncher, and then way will mess. Sure, we will find the center point of the bookmark, so the whole will be right on the center. So this is about close to three inches, so we will go ahead and mark at inch and 1/2. That would be under center point. So right about right there, if you feel comfortable, you can go ahead and grab a pencil, and you can mark that area, the center, and that way you don't have, you know, So that way you don't you don't mess it up. But if you want to just go ahead and I Paul it, that's completely fine. too. All right. So I'm gonna go ahead and grab my hole puncher on. Go on, go there. So I'm gonna go ahead and do it to the one same thing, so probably better right there. So grab my string here. You pulled that, um, this you pull your string halfway like this, and then you're gonna take this little loop, you're gonna insert it into the hold that we just made and grab that and and grab this end and you inserted into the and then just Kalitta likes Well, that you go. Mm. Same thing with other strings. Grab this and started. Pull it up and they go, Here's our bookmark. So for this one, you are also for you to use, um, a different type of string. It doesn't have to be strained. It could be like ribbons. If you want to use ribbons, you can even embellish it with a bead. If you want to be fancy, you can also insert a bead, um, or whatever decorative objects materials you want to add to your to your bookmarks. So that's it. And then you go And this is our, um, bookmark. Besides you saying the science type process 10. Final Thoughts: Hi. Thank you again for watching my class. I hope you have fun watching and learning about how to me Bookmark design using the science type process. I enjoy teaching it and I hope you learn some new skills just watching my class. And don't forget Teoh. Great. Your bookmark designs and take photos of those decisive and post them to the project section. And if you have any questions or just want to share your experience, win struggles, whatever it ISS please share them in the discussion section. I would love to hear about it. And again. Don't forget, Teoh. Share your photos in the project section. I look forward to seeing all the photos of the bookmark, the signs that you created. Thank you. Bye.