Most photographs were taken in monochrome so to make the photographs look more realistic or artistic they hand coloured them. At first a mixture of gum arabic and pigments were used to colour the photographs and sometimes a coloured powder was fixed to the surface of the photograph by application of heat.
Numerous materials were used to colour in the photographs, these include; basic dye, watercolours, oils and crayons/ pastels.
Today we were set a task to take a photo of a person, in full length, and put it onto photoshop. We had to change the photograph to black and white to then print out and paint over.
Original photograph
Changed to black and white
Painted over
I used bright colours to paint over the photograph, which makes the image look like pop art. As I painted straight onto the printed image the paint didn't absorb into it due to the amount of ink used causing the water to run off it.
