Cyanotype, chemograms en rozen

What do cyanotypes, chemograms and roses have to do with each other?

You will find out in this art week.

• You make: classic cyanotypes with plants
• cyanotypes with negatives and positives
• wet cyanotypes
• lumen and cyanolumen chemograms with plants and sunlight

• other alternative analog photography techniques

You learn to color images with natural dyes, such as tea and coffee. You make anthotypes with turmeric, roses or spinach to give your artwork a lively look and its own signature.

We go to the beach with an impregnated piece of cotton or paper to develop a cyanotype with seaweed. Let the sun and the waves, your lighting determine the artistic result.

There are so many possibilities to combine these techniques. Bleaching, dyeing, coloring.

It promises to be a week full of experiments with the chemicals for cyanide and natural dyes. At the end of the week you go home with lots of new ideas.

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In Lubrin, Andalusia, Spain, we make ourselves comfortable at Casa de Arte di Simone, where we will stay for a week to enjoy Spanish food, go on tour to explore the countryside, but most of all create amazing works of art,

On our walking tours through the Spanish countryside we collect flowers and herbs. That is the material to create works of art. We take pictures of the impressive landscape. We visit local markets to collect fruits, vegetables and herbs to extract colors from.

You learn to color with these natural products such as turmeric, beet juice, spinach, lemon, blueberries, strawberries, carrot, green tea, coffee and cocoa. Wieneke de Leeuw is a quirky artist with original ideas.

She embraces the experiment and takes you on her artistic journeys.

Wieneke de Leeuw, visual artist

Wieneke de Leeuw

Personal stories have always fascinated and inspired me.

Eventually I was able to make it my job as a creative therapist. In 2017 I suddenly became deaf on both sides. To give my life a positive turn, I started studying Photographic Design. I graduated with my flower still lifes of the Wild Kievitsbloem.

I started experimenting with chemigrams and looking for new, artistic effects to portray these flowers. The texture of the images refers to the stains on the pages of old Herbaria and the original colors give it a warm authentic atmosphere.

At the moment I'm working on my book that will be designed by the well-known book designer Sybren Kuiper. https://wienekedeleeuw.nl/bloemen-stillevens/

Included

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Information

If you prefer to stay at another accomodation or you have your residancy in Spain and you don't want to attend the tours, you are very welcome to participate only in the training.

€695,- Just for the training including photographic materials and presentation with drinks and tapaz.

Story's

Just before Corona I was in China and experienced the dense fog in the mountains, which can linger for months. Suddenly she broke open, exposing her surroundings and immediately closed again. Luckily I had my camera ready. This photo has been important for this series.

Mist makes me feel different; She puts a blanket over the landscape. As a hearing impaired person, I experience that the fog dampens my hearing even more. I want to translate these feelings into Dutch Landscapes. For this I have researched the elements of Chinese painting, Shan Shui, and applied them in the Dutch landscape. Shan Shui stands for the words mountains and water. Together they mean landscape.

Unfortunately we don't have mountains in the Netherlands, but I live not far from Soesterduinen and have taken this specific atmosphere and unique trees as a starting point.

The fog blurs the disturbing elements in the area, so that the photographed trees come into their own. I not only experience the dampening feeling on my hearing physically, but also affects my feeling.

I visualize Shan Shui of my muffled hearing in my Dutch landscapes.

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Foto's that smell like roses

I have experimented a lot with printing on different types of wood. The result is an alienating effect. At first glance, the image looks like a print of plants, only when you look closely do you see that these are embroidery. Other photographers have used such an effect, such as Joan Fontcuberta, who composed plants from a variety of materials.

I made a touch book of the embroidery, so that blind and visually impaired people can also experience what is on the prints. May 2021 I had a beautiful exhibition in the Hortus in Leiden.