| I took these pictures with a regular
35 mm camera using black and white film. I developed them in my darkroom,
then used sepia toner to change photo to shades of brown (see backgrounds,
which are unpainted). Then I matted them and painted them using Marshall's
photo paints, pastels (chalks), and Marshall's photo pencils. Finally,
I sprayed them with a matte spray. |
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| I watched while this little girl ate a McDonald's
hamburger, 4 chicken nuggets, and an order of French fries. When she went
for the ice cream I couldn't resist taking her picture. Her name is Allie. |
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| These 2 sisters wanted to give their mother
a photo for Mother's Day but they didn't like professional photos. The
girl on the right actually had very dark brown hair but liked the way I colored
it in the photo so much that she had her hair color changed to match it! |
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| Milette Bachmat was my very first subject. We
worked for an arms dealer in LA (she had moved here from Israel). I did a better
job with the first photo I painted for her, but for some strange reason, she
wanted to give that one to her husband! (And yes, her hair really was slightly
purple.) |
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| This little girl was a dollbaby. In
fact, her parents were blessed to have 2 beautiful little girls. This one
was the older, and looked like her father. The other little girl was blonde
with blue eyes, just like her mother. And yes, I took and painted pictures
of her, too! This was one of my earliest ones. I didn't do a great job
on the hair because I worked it too much and the photograph paper lost the highlights:-( |
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| The photo on the left was what
I had to work with. It was blurry, scratched up and overexposed and 1/3
of the picture was of the dashboard! The above were scanned from 3x5
photos since I gave the painted photo to the daughter of this couple. |
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| My nephew, Brendon Bookman. I
don't know why I cut part of his arms off when I took a picture of the hand painted
photo (which I gave to my sister). The first time in the darkroom, I had
this pic flipped over. I didn't notice it until I started to paint it and
Cypress Gardens was backwards and reversed! |
