This (above) is the stuff I am using:
Oil colors:
Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine(blue), Viridian(green)
Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber.
Watercolors: A Marshalls "Photo Retouch Colors" set:
"Primary" - Blue, Red, & Yellow..
and a "Basic" - Black, Brown, Flesh, Blue, & Green.
Also, a steady supply of Q-tips and cotton balls.
A Marshall Oil color set you can buy at various art supply companies
looks like this:
The 'PM solution' (that's the bottle w/ the red label, at left), toothpicks, cotton balls,
metal 'poker', and Marlene (that's the bottle w/the blue label),
at bottom right?...are either unnecessary and/or over priced.
'PM solution'?..is simply linseed oil - you need it, but you can buy much more
of it for less by just buying it at an art supply store.
Cotton balls? you can get a huge bag for a buck or so at any drugstore.
The 'tooth picks' (I assume to wrap some cotton around, and color with?)
Don't use 'em! - it's too easy to scratch your print,
get some Q-tips instead, they are real cheap, and they won't 'scratch' anything.
As for the 'metal poker', to break into dried color tubes?...
Surely you have a paper clip somewhere in your apt. or house?
As for 'Marlene'?...be real careful w/ this! -
it does 'undo-able' things to the paper surface!
I never use it.
If you need to 'erase'? use a Q-tip w/ a bit of linseed oil :-)
Here's a few 'before'(B&W) and 'after'(handcolored) images...
'Tiger'
'Schoolroom/Apocalyptic lessons'
'Desert carousel'
Here's a digital version of 'handcoloring' this one....
It's a whole lot more work, and comes across to me...as garish.
(Sorry, but, uh... please pass me the cotton balls, Q-tips and oil colors.
I much prefer working with *real* materials.)
Rather than try to describe what each layer does,
Click here to download a very small version (1.8MB) of the PSD file,
and open it up yerself :-)
You don't need the latest version of Photoshop to open it -
it's done w/ V 7.0.
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