Oil tinting techniques to enhance and build back detail....skin tones washed out from flash, sunlight, over exposure,or fading,, a wash of transparent oil paint and techniques that I learned from my mother,Dixie Laval..... This round blob of color turned to a face is a lesson I watched Dixie teach many, many students over the years. She asked them to make a round area of paint on the back of a print, then with cotton and a stick, make "swabs" to rub out detail,, leaving it darker in the shadows, and bright highlights softnening the edges, creating shapes. Like looking at a pool table ball, it has a bright highlight that softens out as the light rolls around the ball ...

 

Start with a transparent oil glaze,,

then rub smooth with soft dacron or cotton....



with a cotton swab,, begin rubbing off the paint in the highlights,, in this exercise, making them up as you go,, on a print,, using the detail there, to enhance.



start with the brightest highlight

softening the edges...

Detail is just paint rubbed off, and left on...

This example is a faded print.. copied to be restored.. the large poster was used for a guide on detail..



PAINTINGS ON CANVAS.. DUPLICATED

40 x 60 finished paintings

The originals were 40 x 60 paintings, The Kelly Gallery was commissioned to make duplicate "paintings"

The paintings were photographed, then new 40x60 photographic prints were made, with the addition of artwork on top, to bring back to the look of a painting,

The photographs picked up some glare, and texture, and loss of some color and detail.

Portraits By Kelly Daniels, The Kelly Gallery, Stillwell Ks

Making a color print, a "painting"

dog printed on 16x20
vignette background added edges softened, detail sharpened,
enhanced for a final "sketch look" painting
Bill Gooch Photography, Oklahoma

This painting started out from a customer's snap shot, requesting a "painting". A copy and enlargement was made, and then oil paint applied by hand.

Beau Lac Artistry, Conroe Tx

Oil enhancement to sharpen and add color

Portraits by The Kelly Gallery, Stillwell Ks

Portrait by The Kelly Gallery, Stillwell Ks

below is the before image, the boys pant leg was lengthened,

but it was over the girls foot, it was moved to "behind" her foot

Corrections, even after digital art

This large bandage was missed in digital art, and the 40x60 photograph was already printed.

Hand artwork was applied to the 40x60 print.

Digital artwork missed on the head swap, and did not align the subjects clothing,

again, hand artwork applied.

digital lines in the flowers,

an easy fix with a little oil paint, All three of these changes were done on the print, "after digital artwork".

Restorations,, using hand oil techniques

Oil Enhancements

This is a color portrait enhanced with oil paints by hand.

Portrait by Kelly Daniels, The Kelly Gallery, Stillwell Kansas.