Hand painted photographs

Handcoloring your photographs not only allows you intimate contact with the photo but also a great deal of creative freedom.

Handcoloring is the technique of adding color to a black and white photograph. The process dates back to the earliest days of photography and its purpose was to add realism to the prints.

How old were you when you decided Photography was your passion and can you tell us how you found yourself a career as a photographer? When I was a teenager I often would paint on magazine pages and make collages, but I was always painting on an image I found that belonged to someone else. It was just a creative outlet and I didn’t think of it as art or anything serious. Around that same time, I stumbled upon Peter Beards collaged and painted photos of his life in Africa. I remember meeting…

Handcoloring is the technique of adding color to a black and white photograph. The process dates back to the earliest days of photography and its purpose was to add realism to the prints.

Shae paints over her photographs. A multi-talented one, she is! LINK: SHAE ACOPIAN DETAR

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The concept of enhancing photographs by hand was something totally foreign to this group of teens! We used a variety of materials - watercolors, watercolor pencils, fine art pens, pastels, collage papers. We were pretty impressed with the designs the kids came up with! What do you think? If you're interested in trying your hand at hand coloring photographs, check out this great tutorial from A Beautiful Mess.

By terri at Mon, 2006-04-03 19:01 Introduction to Hand Coloring by Terri Sprinkle INTRODUCTION The art of hand coloring black and...

I love transfers, wrote a book on transfers (Image Transfer Workshop) and it is my favorite thing to do so I had to try it on Creative Paperclay®. It works great!!! The texture is porous enough to take the transfer well. Just make sure that the clay is thoroughly dry and fairly flat. The one I did here has rough edges which is my preference but you can spend more time and get a more perfect transfer. Great for shrines, mobiles or ??? You can draw or paint on top of the finished transfer or…