Laura Blacklow

Laura Blacklow, from Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA is the author of “New Dimensions in Photo Processes” and also makes books with Cyanotypes, Vandykes and pastels. From: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes and Vandykes. Laura Blacklow is the author of New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-By-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques (Focal Press, revised fifth edition, 2018). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship … Read more

Hand colored photograph by Holly Roberts

Handcoloring using water, oil or chalk as a base

A chapter from Laura Blacklow’s book New Dimensions in Photo Processes on how to handcolor photographs. The chapter is instructions on hand coloring using water-based methods, oil-based method and chalk-based methods. Writer / Laura Blacklow Photography / Holly Roberts, Erica Daborn, Laura Blacklow and Gabriel Garcia Román Hand coloring is a means by which you can add color to a photograph, photographic printing technique in this book, or digital print and … Read more