Hand Colored Landscape Photography CAPTURING EMOTION THROUGH COLOR

HAVE YOU EVER FELT INSPIRED BY A PLACE?

 Has a sunset ever moved you  Has a cemetery ever given you the creeps?  Has a building or space ever inspired awe or wonder?  The earth and our environment effects us all every day through our emotions. HAVE YOU EVER FELT INSPIRED BY A PLACE?

 Assignment:  Using the colored scheme and material of your choice you will hand-color a black and white landscape photo with the goal of enhancing the emotional response when looking at the photo.  Think about:  What emotion do you want to inspire?  What do you feel in the space? FROM REAL TO SURREAL

 Hand-Coloring – manually adding color to a black and white photography using a range of artistic mediums  Traditionally dyed with oil paints or photo dyes  Contemporary material include: watercolor, photo paints, acrylic paints, oil and chalk pastels, and colored pencils HISTORY OF HAND COLORED PHOTOGRAPHY

 Daguerreotype  First widely successful type of photography  a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate  Replaced the work of portrait artists PHOTOGRAPHY AND HAND COLORING vs. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this invention? To the artist? To the subject

 Johann Baptist Isenring – swiss painter and printmaker who created the first hand colored photographs using gum arabic and pigments in the mid- 1800’s  Created to:  add color to photography and replicate realistic colors.  But also to give a more stylized perfect look to photography HISTORY OF HAND COLORED PHOTOGRAPHY

 Golden Age of Hand Coloring – between 1900 – 1940  Before color photography became readily available  Colorists were hired to hand color photography for wedding gifts, shower gifts, holiday gifts, friendship gifts, and vacation souvenirs  Hand coloring was done on portraits, postcards, magazine covers, etc  Traditionally with photo oils or dyes HISTORY OF HAND COLORED PHOTOGRAPHY –

EXAMPLES OF HANDCOLORING

HAND COLORED LANDSCAPES

 Color Theory in Artworks:  Artists use color to invoke an emotional response in their viewer USING COLOR TO INSPIRE EMOTION  What emotions are invoked with these artworks?

 Red – powerful, strong  Blue – calming soothing  Yellow – happy, active  Orange – earthy natural friendly  Purple - mystical and magical  Green – vital and fresh, clean COLORS AND EMOTION

COLOR SCHEMES  A planned combination of colors  Monochromatic  Warm  Cool  Analogous  Three Analogous with Compliment  Complimentary  Split Compliment  Double Compliment  Triad

MONOCHROMATIC SCHEME  The monochromatic color scheme uses variations in value and intensity of only one color.  This color scheme takes on the characteristics of the color you choose: red will seem powerful, yellow bright happy, green calm, etc. Pablo Picasso, The Tragedy

WARM SCHEME  A warm color scheme uses only warm colors, such as red, yellow, orange and browns.  Promote warmth, static Andrew Wyeth, The Scarecrow

COOL SCHEME  A cool color scheme uses only cool colors, such as green, blue and purple.  Calming and tranquil Georgia O’Keefe, Blue and Green Music

ANALOGOUS SCHEME  This color scheme uses colors that are next to one another on the color wheel. With an analogous color scheme, one color is usually the dominant one, while the others serve as an accent to the dominant color. Rousseau, Snake Charmer

COMPLEMENTARY SCHEME  Complimentary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Examples of complementary color schemes are reds with greens, oranges with blues and violets with yellows. Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Onions

SPLIT COMPLEMENT SCHEME  The split-complimentary color scheme uses three colors and is a twist on the complimentary color scheme. Instead of using the colors compliment, you will use the two colors adjacent to its compliment on the color wheel.  For instance, Red, Yellow- Green and Blue-Green could be a split complimentary color scheme. Edvard Munch, The Scream

DOUBLE COMPLEMENT SCHEME  The double compliment scheme uses two pairs of complementary colors. George Seurat, Sunday in the Park

THREE ANALOGOUS WITH COMPLEMENT  The analogous with complement scheme uses a traditional analogous scheme but adds the complement of one of the original colors for emphasis and highlight. Claude Monet, Sunrise

TRIAD SCHEME  The triadic color scheme uses three colors that are evenly spaced or equidistant from one another on the color wheel. This scheme produces strong contrast but still retains harmony. Salvador Dali, The Melting Watch

CONTEMPORARY HAND COLORISTS  Martine Fabrizio  I have a passion for the romance of the past and try to recreate this timeless quality in my photographs. I think many people share this feeling and wish they could escape to a softer world. Much of my inspiration comes from my passion for gardening as well as a love for children and traveling. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Visual Communications from Western Washington University where I specialized in photography and design.