colouring black and white photos

[LA]

hi people!!

i have heard about and have seen recently black and white prints being coloured and was wondering did anyone know what type of medium would tint them??

its just an enlarged black and white print from a black abd white enlarger..

i have seen the outcome before but really have no idea what to use to tint the photo without ruining it.

what about watered down acrylics?? as they would stain better than watercolours.
but whould this make the photographic paper go warped or other such things?!?!?! http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/confused.gif

just wondering if anyone out there can shed any light on this query!! any suggestions would be much appreciated!! http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

LA

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[Roan]

I believe it's a special oil-based paint made exclusively for photographic use. It's also sold as markers. Regardless, you can check it out at Dick Blick.

Web site is <A HREF="http://www.dickblick.com">www.dickblick.com</A>
Link directly to the photo coloring page is:

<A HREF="http://www.dickblick.com/categories/photocoloring/">http://www.dickblick.com/categories/photocoloring/</A>

Hope this helps!

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Mar sin leibh an-dràsda,

Roan

[VictoriaS]

Marshall's photo oils. I order mine from a website called "handcolor.com." Some photo shops and art supply shops carry them, but the selection is usually limited. You can also use pencils (if you first prep the surface in some way), or pastels (a different look). Marshall's photo oils are the best thing for the traditional hand-colored look.

[icefan13]

I've been doing hand coloring for about 14 years (professionally for 8). You can use any kind of paint; oils, watercolors, pastels, pencils. It is just a matter of matching the medium to the type of photographic paper. Marshall oils has a website. These are paints made especially for hand coloring. They also have a book and a video on hand coloring techniques.

handcolor.com is a decent site but they are WAY OVERPRICED for the paints, etc. that they sell. Try Pearl Paints. Much cheaper.

[StarGate]

icefan13(and others) I read an article somewhere that a long time photo-colorist is now using Old Holland Oil paints - do you know if Old Holland Oils would be good enough to hand color b/w photos and what kind of photo paper do you recommend -rc - etc.

[icefan13]

Originally posted by StarGate:
icefan13(and others) I read an article somewhere that a long time photo-colorist is now using Old Holland Oil paints - do you know if Old Holland Oils would be good enough to hand color b/w photos and what kind of photo paper do you recommend -rc - etc.

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I'd love to know the name of that photo-colorist. They obvious are doing well if they can afford Old Holland Paints!!

Any brand of oil paints will do, but if you are using regular oils you will need to thin them. The paper should be fiber based (not RC, though Kodak actually makes an RC paper called ArtMax that is just for hand coloring).
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