Easy Cyanotype

With it having been such sunny weather, I decided to finally have a go at cyanotype - I'd been given a pack of preprepared fabric sheets last year for a birthday present, so a 'play' was well over due! 

Open the packet of fabric sheets, remove a sheet and reseal the packet. I then put it on a board for ease of carrying, added vegetation and a sheet of glass (held down with kitchen weights) and put this in the sun for 8 minutes.
This was at 2 O' Clock in the afternoon and the sun was strong - a completely clear sky. 

After 8 minutes the fabric takes on a bronze hue and the area covered by vegetation has turned blue. 
I then washed the fabric for 5 minutes in cold water - the blue vegetation impression turns pale and  the backgroung becomes pale blue. Left to dry naturally for 24 hours, the pale areas become paler and the blue darkens. 

The results are beautiful and really detailed - the dots are from grass seeds in the above print.

This, less successful, print was made in the late afternoon. Although the sun seemed strong it wasn't - hence the paler blue and as the sun was dropping in the sky there was a 'shadow' around the impressions. 

More prints - and below...