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  2. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography ...

  3. Conté - Wikipedia

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    Conté crayons are most commonly found in black, white, and sanguine tones, as well as bistre, shades of grey, and other colors. Colors sets are especially useful for field studies and color studies. Some artists create entire paintings with them, using them more like pastels than like a drawing medium.

  4. Pointillism - Wikipedia

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    Pointillism (/ ˈpwæ̃tɪlɪzəm /, also US: / ˈpwɑːn - ˌ ˈpɔɪn -/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

  5. Monochrome photography - Wikipedia

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    Monochrome photography. Monochrome photography, or is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light (value), but not a different color (hue). The majority of monochrome photographs produced today are black-and-white, either from a gelatin silver process, or as digital photography.

  6. Grayscale - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a greyscale (more common in Commonwealth English) or grayscale (more common in American English) image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Grayscale images, a ...

  7. Papaver orientale - Wikipedia

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    Binomial name. Papaver orientale. (L. [1] ) Papaver orientale, the Oriental poppy, [2] is a perennial flowering plant [3] native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. [4] Oriental poppies grow a mound of leaves that are hairy and finely dissected in spring. They gather energy and bloom in mid-summer.

  8. Georges Seurat - Wikipedia

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    Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: / ˈsɜːrɑː, - ə / SUR-ah, -⁠ə, US: / sʊˈrɑː / suu-RAH; [1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; [6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper ...

  9. Chromolithography - Wikipedia

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    Chromolithography is a chemical process based on the rejection of water by grease. The image is applied to stone, grained zinc or aluminium surfaces, with a grease-based crayon or ink. Limestone and zinc are two commonly used materials in the production of chromolithographs, as aluminium production was limited before the invention of the Hall ...