This hand-tinted cyanotype began as an iPhone photograph of the centre of a bowl/plate that someone left out on their lawn. But when I made the digital negative to make the cyanotype contact print I forgot to invert it, so the negative was a positive.
I decided to go with it, and tired hand-tinting the “negative” cyanotype with watercolour pigments. Here is the results.
Note: instead of just scanning the print, I just took a photo of the entire thing.
Another hand-tinted cyanotype of rusted streetcars at the Halton Rail Museum. Again, watercolours were used.
This print of a derelict street car at the Halton Rail Musuem started off as a standard cyanotype, but I decided to explore adding colour via watercolour. I like the results!
I am getting back into hand tinting, but using a digital workflow. Using an iPad, the Procreate app, and an Apple Pencil, I find the process of laying down digital “pigment” and then thinning it out to get the desired level of transparency to be very reminiscent of how I used to do it with darkroom prints and photo oils.
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