In response to the barn picture, Fredo introduced me to something I never paid much attention to before: hand tinted photographs. He mentioned Sawyer prints and a guy named Nuttings. The Sawyer prints are great. Very colorful, but Nutting's tinted prints just blew me away! The above is a Nutting print called "Disappearing Blossoms".

I know how to tint in Photoshop and have done some great vintage looking photos for people, but that is image manipulation via a PC and not the same thing at all. With hand-tinted photographs, you print the black and white image then color it. Each print becomes an 'original'. It requires a translucent oil paint and different mediums, and I would even have to buy special paper. (All expensive, by the way.)

The fire is lit. Once I recover from the expenses of these last few months, I have to give it a try. In the interim I am going to try printing a black and white on watercolor paper and tinting it with watercolors. The Epson 'Claria' inks are not water soluble and will not run or blur. Shelly and I are doing an art festival later today so it will have to wait a day or two.