#colourization

This is a colourization I did of author Alice Walker. She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature for her book ‘The Color Purple’. 

Aug 29 1918 US photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 69945, of a French Renault FT-17 tanks moving to the support of French troops at Valpries Farm near Juvigny 

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Colourized by Painting The Past - Colourisations by Joshua Barrett

Aug 29 1918 During the Battle of the Scarpe war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this picture, IWM Q 7014, of two Stretcher-bearers of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders catching some sleep. 

 August 29 1918-08-29

Colourized by DB Colour

Aug 29 1918 During the Battle of the Scarpe, war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 7007, of the capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. Daylight patrol of the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods, north-east of Roeux.

Aug 27 1918 #OTD At a shell dump, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes these photos of a British soldier posing with heavy shells, one of which has a chalked message 'A Present for Jerry.' There is some confusion over the origin of Jerry, the slang name for Germans. Some sources say it is from the Imperial German stahlhelm helmets which Allies said to have looked like chamber pots or "Jeroboams." Other sources say Jerry is just a corruption of the word Germans. 27 August 1918-08-27 Colourized by @colorsofhistory IWM Q 11260, IWM Q 11261

Aug 27 1916 During the Battle of Passchendaele war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 5945, of Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery manhandling a 6-inch (BL 6-inch 26 cwt) howitzer in Ypres.

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Who gets the blame for everything? Not the person next to you or a machine or a device. The one to blame is yourself.

Artists are obviously the most important people in the entire universe. Yeah okay, it was April Fools' Day recently so there is that. At least I'm important to me ... with genuine sincerity I say that ... ha, ha har,har

Yep, it’s another long weekend, what the H–E double hockey sticks? 

I did what I wanted. Not that it means anything. I closed my eyes took a deep breath and simply just did it! Now it is done. Feel free to read my weekly gibberish -- or not!

I usually trash talk my work (someone has to) … but not this week. The final image may or may not be of any value, but the process worked for me. A number of my previous images are digital colourizations of ink and graphite drawings. First I would do a “mindless doodle” line drawing and then render the values and textures with graphite. The next step is to digitize the image and colour it.…

The same, the same, the same. Must be lockdown fever. This week is like last week only different, I think. The future is now and instantly the past.

Here I am again. Time is irrelevant at this time. At times this is how time feels. Or in other words didn’t I just write a post? Yeah, I guess I did. According to the arrow of time that was one week ago.  Yep, I’m stalling for time and filling empty space whilst I get the brain ticking.  Tick, tick, tick … tick! Okay then, it appears this is a repeat of last week. What did I do? I carried on…