Hand Coloring 1950s Chrysler with Diluted Oils on Inkjet Paper

In this video I am hand coloring a Chrysler from the 1950s which is part of a private collection in Joshua Tree, California.

It is printed at 16x12 inches on Breathing Color’s Vibrance Matte inkjet paper, which is a paper you can print on with your own inkjet printer. Then I mounted it on a backboard to give it some strength. I Sprayed it two times with a varnish and then when that was dry I painted on an acrylic medium (Golden Gloss Glazing Liquid). When I painted on the acrylic medium I kinda followed the structure of the photo. It’s hard to avoid brush strokes so I'm making the brush strokes become part of the image.

This makes it ready to be colored with diluted oils (oil glazes) on an acrylic coating.

To get diluted oils, I am mixing regular oil paints with liquin impasto, which is a good alternative to Marshall Photo Oils. The advantage of using the oils on the acrylic coating is that you can still easily remove the paint (i.e. to make corrections).

Hand coloring black and white photos or hand tinting black and white photos is an old technique from the days of black and white photography. I hand color my photos with a variety of media on a variety of substrates (i.e. oils on photo paper, oils on canvas, pastels on matte papers, water colors on water color paper, acrylic on canvas like here, etc.)

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