maybe?

I intended to spend the week sorting through photos. I've been doing lots of that but to break up the somewhat tedious task I took breaks now and then to test out potential ways to combine watercolor with the cyanotypes. That process has been something of a struggle. Early on I was tempted to just say the photos work better on their own but I think that's an obvious and easy conclusion. While it may come to that I'm forcing myself to be a little more creative and am keeping up with the experimentation a little bit until I can make a more informed conclusion. Below is one example of the current path I'm going down in which I'm applying the watercolors at the same time as the cyanotype chemicals (before exposing the photograph). I'm intrigued by the play of the colors with the prussian blue of the cyanotype and the way I got the more expressive effects of watercolor to merge with the more crisp lines of the photograph. This is just a rough draft but I figured I'd post it as some evidence of what I'm playing with at the moment....