Fat Grrrl seated........... handcoloured silver gelatin photograph

Juilee  Pryor

Fat Grrrl seated........... handcoloured silver gelatin photograph

Having a little think about the changing nature of aspects of photography and about what the term ‘handcolouring’ means these days….. I have previously always thought of the term ‘handcoloured’ as indicating the application of paint or pencils or toners or inks straight onto the surface of the photograph. The application by hand of paint or whatever gives the images treated that way a real depth and although fiddly and time consuming …. it’s a technique that rewards the artist with images that are somewhere between both crafts of painting and photography….. and become works of art in themselves.

Because some of these old fashioned skills take some time to master and can’t be applied with any known Adobe product it seems that they are destined for the museum. Or for use by actual artists …. not everybody is an artist provided they have the right software type artists but real driven passionate obssessed and skilled artists who have the training and the courage to try and tackle that old vison thing….......


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Fat Grrrl seated........... handcoloured silver gelatin photograph by Juilee  Pryor
Fat Grrrl seated........... handcoloured silver gelatin photograph by Juilee  Pryor
  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    You, Juilee Pryor are an artist.

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks darlin…. it’s my gift and my curse…..

  • Dayonda

    Dayonda

    This is totally unexpected, art and medium. I love a good surprise, too—and this is a good one.

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks Dayonda…there are more coming…..:)

  • LostGod

    LostGod

    i love these Juilee.

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks losty… there real cute in real life I have to say….:)

  • Mel Brackstone

    Mel Brackstone

    Gorgeous!! Does the paint still allow the image to show through, or can you decide whether to go opaque or translucent as you work?

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    the paint is translucent and you use minute quantities and put it on with cotton buds and fine tiny sable brushes. the white paint however is opaque so you can control the viscostiy and density of the paint pretty easily…..these two are heavily underpainted with white which is partly why they are so bright and dense…. it’s sounding complicated but it’s a really lovely thing to do to images…....you’d love it… be nice to maybe have work shops or get togethers to share skills like this…..so glad you like these funny old pictures…..:)

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