Computers & Hand Coloring

[Stanee Rae Pettit Murray <stanee-rae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:19 PM 10/24/96 Tom Benedict wrote:

>Speaking of computers and photography (I'm not quite 30, but my first one
>was a TRS-80 Model I with NO possibility of video nuthin') 

I'll be 39 next March, and when I started at Bell Labs, we didn't even have
CRT terminals; just Texas Instruments printing terminals that echoed back
whatever you typed on a roll of fax-like paper.  You couldn't get more than
6 megs of RAM on the IBM mainframe, and then only at night when no one else
was on.  I was a FORTRAN programmer, and also used PROLOG in school. When I
got my CS degree, we weren't even using Windows! 

>On a totally different note, has anyone done any hand-colored IR?  If so
>could anyone upload some to the gallery?  I'm thinking of trying it out
>(my first real try at hand-coloring), but I'd like to see what other people
>are doing, too.

I love to hand color, but it's very meticulous work.  I use mostly the
Marshall's oils and pencils.  You can get them from Albums, Inc.  Ask for
their free catalog 1-800-662-1000 or www.AlbumsInc.com/albums/

The oils are very forgiving in that if you don't like something, you can
wipe it off.  They take several days to dry.  Usually I only spot-color
parts of the image; I feel this adds to the surrealism. Two of my
hand-tinted HIE images got blue ribbons at PPANJ, one got a red.  I haven't
got that scanner connected (yet), but I'll submit some to the gallery one of
these days . . .

Stanee

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