photo spray?

[PjC23565]

im in a photography class and we did a project with black and white pictures:

we each took with our cameras a black and white photo and developed in our darkroom, well then our teacher took this spray and sprayed the picture so we could take our prisma colored pencils and colored it. i really want to do that on my own, but i cant find the spray that she used to make that textured kinda feel so we could color it....

does anyone know what im talking about...or what this spray is called??

 

[cristianna]

Never heard of it. Sounds pretty cool though. Can you ask your teacher? And then of course... tell us. =)

 

[Gnasher]

yeah I've heard of it - but cannot remember what it's called.... um check camera websites - I will have a look around and try and work it out

 

[Gnasher]

Are you sure it isn't fixing spray?

 

[PjC23565]

i dont know. im on christmas break so i cnat ask my teacher.

i might try a fixing spray!

 

[Gnasher]

it might not be that..

 

[PjC23565]

yeah i dont know. im just going to keep looking. i whent to some craft stores and they have heard of this spray but they dont carry it. so im not sure if its a fixing spray. oh well .ill just keep looking!

 

[Lecarde]

When we did that in my photo class, I think we just used a flat paper instead of gloss and spread a kind of oil on the paper to make the colored pencil go on smoother.

 

[chaz345]

The spray you seek is called Pre-Color Spray and it is made by a company called Marshalls.

There are other clear sprays made for protecting artwork, which you should spray on after the coloring is done to seal it. But those do not work so well for pre-color because their surface doesn't "grab" the colored pencil very well.

As an added idea, while Prismacolor pencils are the most commonly used for hand coloring, all sorts of other things are used. There are special translucent oil paints(also made by Marshalls), that are designed specially for this purpose. Oil pastel sticks or even good quality crayons can be used too. With either of those, using a Qtip, or a toothpick with a tiny bit of cotton on it, with a little mineral oil or turpintine(very little) will allow you to smooth and blend the colors. Those watercolor pencils work pretty good too.

The suggestion to just use matte surface paper won't work very well unless you are using old style fiber based printing paper. The newew RC(resin coated) papers are to "plastic" even in matte surface, to take the color very well.

 

[cristianna]

I have never heard of that. I may have to check it out. I'm always looking for new projects to annoy dh with.

 

[fieldmouse3]

I'd love to learn this technique. A former coworker was doing a photography project for school, and she had this black and white picture of a kitten yawning. She'd colored the tongue pink, and it was great.