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From YouTube: Artist Interivew: Tom Ellison
Description
Tom is a botanical printmaker making one of a kind prints using the historic cyanotype process. He’ll be making a series of new work over the next few months and posting them to an online gallery. Neighbors will have an opportunity to receive original artwork from the gallery at no cost in exchange for making a donation to a local non-profit aiding in the COVID-19 crisis. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
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It
was.
It
was
invented
by
sir
john
herschel,
a
british
scientist.
You
discovered
that
if
you
there
are
a
couple
of
iron
salts,
you
can
mix
together
and
create
a
solution
that
is
light
sensitive.
That
creates
all
kinds
of
creative
opportunities
and
possibilities,
and
it
was,
it
was
popular
back
in
the
1840s
and
50s
and
gradually
photography
caught
on
and
it
kind
of
was
a
forgotten
art.
Basically
and
and
now
some
some
people
have
discovered
that
it's
actually
pretty
neat.
You
can
do
some
neat
things
with
it.
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B
You
know
I
I'm
an
old
retired
guy.
I
don't,
I
don't
depend
on
my
artwork
for
a
livelihood,
thankfully,
but
I
had
a
show
lined
up
at
the
littleton
art
museum
in
april.
That
was
canceled.
Actually,
that's
not
true.
It
was
put
online
and
I
had
one
or
two
library
shows
that
were
either
cancelled
or
delayed.
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A
B
B
I
think
they're
just
a
wonderful
organization,
so
what
I'm
doing
is
kind
of
a
fundraiser
for
them
originally.
My
first
idea
was
to
connect
it
with
thanksgiving,
but
it
turns
out
they've
got
a
100
000
matching
grant.
That
is
in
effect
for
september,
so
they're
making
a
big
fundraising
push
in
september,
and
so
I'm
happy
to
speed
things
up
and
do
that.
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B
B
B
B
It's
photograms
are
camera
free,
so
there's
no
camera
involved
very
simple
process,
but
these
days
I
did
that
for
three
years.
All
I
did
was
photographs
these
days.
I
I
do
digital
photos
and
then
do
some
editing
and
a
negative
transparency,
and
I
do
the
same
thing.
I
layer
it
on
the
coated
paper
expose
it
in
the
sun
through
the
washing.