A Summer Cyanotype Extravaganza

Summer Light, Blue Alchemy & Botanical Prints

Sat July 11th and Sun July 10th, Conway MA

Join us for a festive weekend of creative play — a celebration of the luminous blue world of cyanotype, and a radiant gathering of art-making, experimentation, and botanical wonder.

This is not simply a workshop. It is a creative retreat, a printmaking feast, and a joyful deep dive into one of photography’s oldest and most magical processes.

Across two full days we will transform paper, cloth, found objects, and gathered botanicals into radiant Prussian blue prints using summer light, water, and imagination. Expect an atmosphere of curiosity, abundance, experimentation, and creative immersion.

Throughout the weekend we’ll work with botanical printing, layered compositions, cloth, lace, transparencies, toning techniques, unexpected color shifts, large collaborative prints, and playful experimental processes that push cyanotype beyond the traditional print.

Bring your favorite leaves, feathers, letters, heirlooms, scraps, poems, negatives, pressed flowers, and mysterious little things. The more curious your collection, the more magical the results.

Throughout the weekend the studio will become a temporary blue world — part laboratory, part garden, part print studio, part summer festival.

There will be drying prints hanging everywhere, stained fingertips, conversations about light and memory, and the deep satisfaction of making things slowly by hand.

Whether you are brand new to cyanotype or already in love with the process, this extravaganza is designed to nourish experimentation, deepen technique, and rekindle creative wonder.

Come ready to make a glorious mess.
Come ready to gather light.
Come ready to leave with an armful of blue treasures.

Sat July 11 and Sun July 12th

10:30-4:30pm

Conway MA

Come spend the day experimenting, creating, and celebrating the expressive possibilities of sunlight and chemistry.

$250 includes materials

(students are encouraged items to personalize their projects)

(Limited space)

Here’s what others have said about this class:

Thank you, Tonya, for your gift of teaching! I’m definitely going down that rabbit hole…even ordered my supplies already. And when I become curious, I will remember your words…”try it!” Ellie W

Thank you so very much “T” for sharing your art and heart with us! I had a wonderful day in your class, loved your teaching style and keep hearing your words of “try it”! My heart is so full of gratitude and happiness…I will treasure all the experiences from the week for a very long time. Louse

Loved loved loved your class and when I wear my wonderful new apron, I shall remember you. Sharon B

Thanks so much Tonya… your class was amazing and your teaching style so supportive, encouraging and perfect. Loved what I learned and created.- Judy