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I have started a year-long workshop with Ted Orland and David Bayles. Wow! I am very excited and little nervous to get started. We had our first meeting yesterday. I proposed my project as a portfolio of small intimate B&W landscapes from Sunol Regional Park. While at our meeting, I decided with gulp that I would do a book. Well, consider this image my leaping off point. I wanted to colorize my images ala Brian Taylor’s work with gum bichromate. After looking at how gum bichromate processing works, that is not for me. Way too fussy and hands on.
So, I set out to invent my own version using Photoshop and Corel Painter. This is my second piece (the first is not public). I started with charcoal sketches in Corel Painter. Those sketches were tinted with gold, green and blue. I then blended the tinted images in Photoshop using the Multiply blending mode. The Multiply blending mode simulates multiple exposures in camera. Then, I did tonal adjustments and color tweaks in Photoshop. The image was not working for me. So, I added solarized coloring.
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