Hand painted photographs

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

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

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…

Hand coloring a black and white photograph is a beautiful way to add a personal touch and artistic flair to an otherwise monochromatic image. There are several mediums that can be used to add color to a photograph, including watercolors,... Read More The post How To Hand Color A Black And White Photograph appeared first on Debbie Photos.

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.

New York-based artist Shae DeTar, who we’ve featured before, combines photography and painting to create otherworldly photographic prints featuring nudes. For her latest set of ethereal images, she shot both analog and digital photographs and then added layers of paint to emphasize color, texture and a fantastical element. In an interview about her affinity for […]

Berenice Abbott was born in Springford, Ohio, in 1898. After graduating from Ohio State University she moved to New York to study journalism, but eventually decided on sculpture and painting. In 1921 she moved to Paris to study with sculptor Emile Bourdelle. Abbot also worked with the surrealist photographer, Man Ray (1923-25), before opening her own studio in Paris. She photographed the leading artists in France and had her first exhibition at the Au Sacre du Printemps Gallery in 1926…

Two subjects I prefer not to write about in this blog are my day job and artificial flowers. Today I make an exception, perhaps because it’s my final day working in China, or perhaps b…

Portfolio on Shae's Portfolio

(click for larger image) Both images by and courtesy of Shae Acopian Detar. I met Shae back in 2010, when […]