How to Hand Color B&W Photos with Oil Paints : Amazing Results with Few Materials

What You Will Learn?

• Before the invention of colour photographs black and white prints were hand coloured by professionalstudios to make images seem more life-like..
• Artists nowadays use hand colouring as an extension of the creative process..
• Every hand coloured image is unique, hand-made and original..
• Art galleries, album covers, private collections all exhibit hand painted black and white photographs..
• This process is a dying art so I have created this class to teach you the possibilities of this oil colouring process..
• I’m sharing these techniques so that more artists and photographers will learn and continue this art into the future..
• The value of hand colouring is in the rarity of the process and the scarcity of practitioners..
• This process can be done by anyone with a minimum of supplies and no experience.
• If you make a mistake it is easily fixed..
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• Various Methods:.
• There are a few different methods used to hand colour prints – Dies ,water colours, Dry pastels, pencils, acrylic, oils..
• What I like about oils is that you have the choice to be very intricate or more liberal with your approach..
• I regularly spend up to 10 hours on one image but a great result can be achieved in 15 minutes..
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• Materials:.
• The materials needed for this process are minimal..
• A few tubes of oil paints, some cotton wool and a bamboo skewer.
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• After watching this class and with a minimum of practice you will be creating hand coloured black and white images yourself..
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