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    BEAUTY IS IN THE BRAIN OF THE BEHOLDER

    Jul 27, 2022 3 minutes

    On a gloriously sunny day I found myself once again in the garden doing something l love – making art. I make cyanotypes, which involves using photosensitive chemicals to create images with stencils and the Sun. It’s like painting with sunlight and shadows. It was the original process used for copying certain kinds of sketches, and it is because it creates strikingly blue images that we call designs or plans ‘blueprints’.

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