Sunprint Kit
Sunprint Kit (Refill)
Super Sunprint Kit
Super Sunprint Kit (Refill)
How to make Sunprint
Step 1 - What you need
1. Sunprint Paper
2. Acrylic Sheet
3. Cardboard or Paper Towel
4. Tub of Water
5. Fun and Interesting Object to Print
Step 2 - Arrange your objects on a piece of Sunprint paper out of reach of the sun
The blue molecule embedded in the paper are sensitive to ultra-violet light. For best results, prepare your print in a place where the sun's light cannot reach your paper as you arrange objects on top of it. Direct sunlight will expose the paper quickly, but even ambient light in the shade, or a room with a big window will cause slow exposure of the paper.
Step 3 - Press the acrylic pressing sheet on top to flatten and hold your items to the Sunprint paper
Use the acrylic pressing sheet when taking prints of flat or almost flat objects to help sharpen the edges between blue and white in your final print. The ambient sunlight outdoors will find its way underneath the edges of your objects if they are not pressed firmly to the paper, and you will get sunprints with blended contrasts.
Step 4 - Take your Sunprint outside and lay it in direct sunlight for 2-5 mins
The areas of the paper exposed to the sun will fade from blue to white. When you see most of the colour disappear from the paper, your print has been fully exposed. If no direct sunlight is available, don't worry - just expose your print a little longer and wait for the same fading effect. Under cloud cover, the process will take 5-20 mins depending on the thickness of the clouds.
What is happening in this step ? Two crucial molecules in the paper are interacting, forming a new molecule. Their interaction is intiated by specific wavelegth of ultra-violet light. The new molecule is colourless so that as the blue molecules are converted, the white of the paper base begins to show through. Areas of your paper covered by your object still contain the orignal blue molecule, will continue to remain blue.
Step 5 - Rinse your sunprint in water. Watch the white turn into blue and the blue into white
To get the deepest blue that the paper can give, leave it in the water for 1-5 mins.
There are 2 exciting things happening to the paper while it is inside the water. First, the original blue compound is water soluable, so when you immerse it into the water, the water carries it away, leaving only the white paper base in those areas. Second, the colourless compound whose formation is caused by the sun's energy is not water soluable. The water causes an oxidation reaction that changes the colourless compound to a deep blue of a finished Sunprint.
Step 6 - Lay your Sunprint on an absorbant surface and allow it to dry
You can a paper towel or cardboard as a bed for your Sunprint while it dries. Putting it on something absorbent will avoid the formation of water spots by drawing the water away from the Sunprint paper.
When you take the paper out of the water, the active chemical will not have finished oxidising. The water remaining in the paper will finish the job before it evaporates. Before it is all gone, you will have a beautiful deep blue Sunprint !
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