Photo Dyes - Experimenting

While in our dark room I found a box of photo dyes. I decided to experiment with the colours and found that it works well on the white of the picture. So I chose some over exposed pictures and a few normally exposed ones to look at the different effects I could get with the dyes. My idea was to bring colour to a black and white print. I wanted to try to get realistic colours but in the end went for more surreal and obscure colours.

Taken with the Lomography Super Sampler, I had 4 identical slides on one page, so I thought I should change the back ground colour. So i chose 4 different colours and painted around Jason and Myself. I found it hard to do as I'm not the best with a paint brush. But I managed to get a wash of colours. I like that each colour gives it a different feel to the picture. Much like my colours linking to emotion I did in unit 2.

In the beginning I attempted to just paint the jacket and that looked good but I wanted to add a skin colour, but It was hard to get that colour using the selection of dyes I had. I also found it hard to stay in the lines as I used a big brush. I feel it makes him look like a tomato, but the blue has been diluted a bit which made it lighter than the original blue.

This was fun to do, I painted each penguin a different colour, and I like how I only dyed a small section of the picture. It looks very abstract as you would never find different colour penguins (unless they were sunburned) I liked that with this one I got slightly better at using the dyes and I was able to stay in the lines and I found a smaller brush to do so.

I liked using the dyes, I didn't use the dyes to how they are traditionally use, which was to add realistic colour to the picture, which is slightly beyond my art skills. I found that once you put the dye to the page you couldn't remove it, and so you had to be very careful.