More Hand-Colored Photographs

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After

So I still have a lot to learn about hand-coloring, but I'm having such a fun time doing it! I'm focusing a lot on how to make the colors even and not blotchy, which is what I'm definitely struggling with the most... but I'll get there! Coloring in lips are also SO hard; the marker is bulky, and lips are very detailed and thin, so that's another challenge!

All the Pretty Masks

Hand-Coloring

Hand-Coloring

Hand-Coloring

I really enjoy masks in photography. By omitting the subject's expression, you are forced to imagine a story based on the surroundings and the subjects' actions. Plus, they look really cool. I've worked with the same mask in two different scenarios: in a more posed, "headshot" type of setting, and in a more natural every-day environment. I think both settings make very different statements, and have very different effects on the message the mask sends.

The first three pictures are also hand-colored with special markers. I'm in the experimental stages right now, so none of the hand-colored pictures are perfect yet, but I'm working that direction!

The Vanderbilt Mansion

Jersey Shore

Prague '10

St. Vitus Cathedral

Art Nouveau Grave

Art Nouveau Grave

Art Nouveau Grave

Church in Old Town Square

River overlooking St. Vitus at sunset

Steet

A man on a bench

St. Vitus Cathedral

Prague Skyline

Painter at the Palace Square

Part of the Palace

Walking towards the Palace through the woods

Palace rose garden

Monument to those whos lives were ruined by Communism in the Czech Republic

Berlin '10

Holocaust Memorial
Holocaust Memorial

The top of the Reichstag

Inside the glass dome at the top of the Reichstag

The Reichstag

The Reichstag

Street performers at the Kindertransport statue

Cool bike

Monument

Monument with stream

Brandenburg Gate at night

Brandenburg Gate at night

Sony Center

Cool building at sunset

Stop light for cars and bikes

Train station facade the survived WWII