SueReno
@suereno.bsky.social
Fiber artist/art quilter specializing in cyanotype and printmaking, with a sideline of photography just for fun. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. suereno.com
Welcome to part 6 of my occasional experiments with film soup. This is a continuation of the same roll of 35mm Kodak gold that I shot in part 5, on my Olympus OM10. I souped it for about 24 hours with dish soap. I love a good pedestrian bridge, with all those struts and angles and shadows.
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Welcome to part 6 of my occasional experiments with film soup. This is a continuation of the same roll of 35mm Kodak gold that I shot in part 5, on my Olympus OM10. I souped it for about 24 hours with dish soap. I love a good pedestrian bridge, with all those struts and angles and shadows.
New Work! I am happy to present my latest quilt, Flash Flood Watch. And it's going places!
Alarmed by global climate change and frequent dramatic weather events, I’m working on a series of weather-related quilts.
#artquilt #fiberart #wetcyanotype #needlefelting #handembroidery
Alarmed by global climate change and frequent dramatic weather events, I’m working on a series of weather-related quilts.
#artquilt #fiberart #wetcyanotype #needlefelting #handembroidery
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New Work! I am happy to present my latest quilt, Flash Flood Watch. And it's going places!
Alarmed by global climate change and frequent dramatic weather events, I’m working on a series of weather-related quilts.
#artquilt #fiberart #wetcyanotype #needlefelting #handembroidery
Alarmed by global climate change and frequent dramatic weather events, I’m working on a series of weather-related quilts.
#artquilt #fiberart #wetcyanotype #needlefelting #handembroidery
Persistently picking peppers in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Forecasted freeze foretells finale.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Persistently picking peppers in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Forecasted freeze foretells finale.
Sunday spotlight, "Squirrel and Locust", cyanotypes on cotton, heliographic prints on cotton, vintage embroidery, artist painted fabric, commercial fabric, stitching, hand beadwork.
Size: 47"h x 37"w
This seemed like a good moment to share this momento mori quilt. #cyanotype #artquilt #fiberart
Size: 47"h x 37"w
This seemed like a good moment to share this momento mori quilt. #cyanotype #artquilt #fiberart
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sunday spotlight, "Squirrel and Locust", cyanotypes on cotton, heliographic prints on cotton, vintage embroidery, artist painted fabric, commercial fabric, stitching, hand beadwork.
Size: 47"h x 37"w
This seemed like a good moment to share this momento mori quilt. #cyanotype #artquilt #fiberart
Size: 47"h x 37"w
This seemed like a good moment to share this momento mori quilt. #cyanotype #artquilt #fiberart
Welcome to part 99 featuring Spikenard, Aralia racemosa. It's a perennial that grows to shrub height in summer, with large coarse leaves, and spikes of inconspicuous flowers that mature to purple berries. I started with a print on cotton sateen, using cyanotype chemicals with a splash of Solarfast.
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Welcome to part 99 featuring Spikenard, Aralia racemosa. It's a perennial that grows to shrub height in summer, with large coarse leaves, and spikes of inconspicuous flowers that mature to purple berries. I started with a print on cotton sateen, using cyanotype chemicals with a splash of Solarfast.
Welcome to part 5 of my series where I share images altered by the film soup process. These were taken on 35mm Kodak film, with an Olympus OM10 camera. After finishing the roll, I soaked the film canister in a solution of water with a bit of dish soap for 24 hrs., drained it, and let it dry .
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Welcome to part 5 of my series where I share images altered by the film soup process. These were taken on 35mm Kodak film, with an Olympus OM10 camera. After finishing the roll, I soaked the film canister in a solution of water with a bit of dish soap for 24 hrs., drained it, and let it dry .
Spending a rainy afternoon stitching french knots on wool tweed. It’s slow but satisfying work. #slowstitch #handembroidery #frenchknots
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Spending a rainy afternoon stitching french knots on wool tweed. It’s slow but satisfying work. #slowstitch #handembroidery #frenchknots
I hadn’t done a cyanotype print from a photo for a while, but I still remember how. 10” x 12” on cotton sateen. #sealskull #cyanotype #blueprint #altphotography
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I hadn’t done a cyanotype print from a photo for a while, but I still remember how. 10” x 12” on cotton sateen. #sealskull #cyanotype #blueprint #altphotography
Welcome to part 98 of my ongoing experiments with the wet cyanotype process. In this post I continue my mini-obsession with red mulberry leaves. The red mulberry, Morus rubra, is the native tree here in the eastern US.
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Welcome to part 98 of my ongoing experiments with the wet cyanotype process. In this post I continue my mini-obsession with red mulberry leaves. The red mulberry, Morus rubra, is the native tree here in the eastern US.
Today’s moment of zen courtesy of the spectacular VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s 55 acres of themed gardens and woodsy areas and it’s just superb. #botanicalgardens
September 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today’s moment of zen courtesy of the spectacular VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia. It’s 55 acres of themed gardens and woodsy areas and it’s just superb. #botanicalgardens
Welcome to part 97 of my documented experiments in wet cyanotype printing. I started this project in June of 2017, and it has continued to hold my interest over the intervening years.
I began this batch with a large branch of red mulberry leaves on a cotton sateen panel.
I began this batch with a large branch of red mulberry leaves on a cotton sateen panel.
September 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Welcome to part 97 of my documented experiments in wet cyanotype printing. I started this project in June of 2017, and it has continued to hold my interest over the intervening years.
I began this batch with a large branch of red mulberry leaves on a cotton sateen panel.
I began this batch with a large branch of red mulberry leaves on a cotton sateen panel.
Sunday Spotlight: I've spent a lot of my life closely observing the natural world along the Susquehanna River, and yes, it really does show up in my dreams. In this work, it serves as an allegory for a world where all is in balance and beauty abounds.
#artquilt #fiberart
#artquilt #fiberart
September 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Today’s moment of zen, at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. #artinstallations
September 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Today’s moment of zen, at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. #artinstallations
I am delighted to share that Greenhouse Effect has been juried into Celebrating American Craft 2025 at the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. This juried exhibition features the work of 34 craft based artists from across the USA.
September 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am delighted to share that Greenhouse Effect has been juried into Celebrating American Craft 2025 at the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. This juried exhibition features the work of 34 craft based artists from across the USA.
The first set of striking images were taken in a somewhat mundane place, the Waterfront shopping center in Homestead, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. One of the reasons I love it here is that the mundane is often side-by-side with the transmundane; there are relics of the industrial age everywhere.
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The first set of striking images were taken in a somewhat mundane place, the Waterfront shopping center in Homestead, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. One of the reasons I love it here is that the mundane is often side-by-side with the transmundane; there are relics of the industrial age everywhere.
Preliminary design work on a project using the luscious woolens I brought back from Cloth Dublin (+ a bit of Harris tweed.) I thank my lucky stars I ended up as a fiber artist- the weight and texture of this cloth in my hands, and the slightly wooly smell when I steam press it is divine . #fiberart
August 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Preliminary design work on a project using the luscious woolens I brought back from Cloth Dublin (+ a bit of Harris tweed.) I thank my lucky stars I ended up as a fiber artist- the weight and texture of this cloth in my hands, and the slightly wooly smell when I steam press it is divine . #fiberart
Wet cyanotype experiments on cotton and mineral paper, part 96. Be sure to click through as there's a lot of variety in this batch. #wetcyanotype
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Wet cyanotype experiments on cotton and mineral paper, part 96. Be sure to click through as there's a lot of variety in this batch. #wetcyanotype
I make these film soup images as a sort of special treat to myself. It's a mildly complicated process; taking pictures with an eye as to what might translate well to the format, "souping" the film in solution for a period of time, drying the film, sending it for processing, then editing the results.
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I make these film soup images as a sort of special treat to myself. It's a mildly complicated process; taking pictures with an eye as to what might translate well to the format, "souping" the film in solution for a period of time, drying the film, sending it for processing, then editing the results.
Welcome to more adventures in wet cyanotype printing, starting with the leaves of that crowd favorite, tall blue lettuce, Lactuca biennis. The next is a leaf of the lettuce and a sprig of the decidedly non-native Japanese knotweed, Fallopia japonica. The last print is a solo image of the knotweed.
July 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Welcome to more adventures in wet cyanotype printing, starting with the leaves of that crowd favorite, tall blue lettuce, Lactuca biennis. The next is a leaf of the lettuce and a sprig of the decidedly non-native Japanese knotweed, Fallopia japonica. The last print is a solo image of the knotweed.
I'm thrilled to be one of the 40 SAQA artists selected by juror Marcia Young for the 2025 SAQA Journal Gallery. This exhibition in print will be included in the SAQA Journal 2025 Issue #4. My Greenhouse Effect will be featured along with the extraordinary work of other textile artists worldwide.
July 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm thrilled to be one of the 40 SAQA artists selected by juror Marcia Young for the 2025 SAQA Journal Gallery. This exhibition in print will be included in the SAQA Journal 2025 Issue #4. My Greenhouse Effect will be featured along with the extraordinary work of other textile artists worldwide.
A beautiful wet cyan print of box elder leaves with an angry red slash running through it? That's where I'm at right now. Also some really detailed and lovely milkweed leaf prints. It's not a weed in my garden! Details on my blog, link in comments. #wetcyan #cyanotype #printmaking #altphotography
July 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A beautiful wet cyan print of box elder leaves with an angry red slash running through it? That's where I'm at right now. Also some really detailed and lovely milkweed leaf prints. It's not a weed in my garden! Details on my blog, link in comments. #wetcyan #cyanotype #printmaking #altphotography
I am happy to announce that Flash Flood Warning and In Dreams I Drifted Away, accepted for Treasures of Our Local Watersheds, at the Cleveland Botanical Garden’s Eppig Gallery, Cleveland, OH 44116, Aug. 20, 2025 through Oct. 31, 2025. More details on my blog, link in comments. #quiltsky #fiberart
July 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here’s the finished print from yesterday’s in-progress post. Despite the shortish exposure time (seemingly endless rainstorms here) it turned out really complex and interesting. Maybe I DO know what I’m doing 😄 #wetcyanotype #wetcyan #printmaking #altphotography #photogram
July 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Here’s the finished print from yesterday’s in-progress post. Despite the shortish exposure time (seemingly endless rainstorms here) it turned out really complex and interesting. Maybe I DO know what I’m doing 😄 #wetcyanotype #wetcyan #printmaking #altphotography #photogram
A wet cyan print in progress, on mineral paper. I had to pull it early due to a surprise thunderstorm, so it’s not fully exposed by my standards. And since it’s mineral paper, the whole thing could slide right off when I rinse it tomorrow. But at this moment in time it’s fantastic! #wetcyanotype
June 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A wet cyan print in progress, on mineral paper. I had to pull it early due to a surprise thunderstorm, so it’s not fully exposed by my standards. And since it’s mineral paper, the whole thing could slide right off when I rinse it tomorrow. But at this moment in time it’s fantastic! #wetcyanotype