Sitting in SPLIT PEA SOUP

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CREEPING GREEN!

Some people just didn't quite finesse the art of hand tinting photos. Slap the colors on with a roller instead of a fine brush. But it's an original. There isn't another one exactly like it anywhere...and I think we're probably all grateful for that.

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SHARI in color

Another photo of Shari, but no information as to when it was taken. Such beautiful big eyes.



I also believe that this photo of two kids rollerskating is of Shari with perhaps her brother. This photo was originally posted August 4, 2011.


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The YOUNG GIRL IN THE BONNET

This is the last of the hand tinted photos. I found this little scrap of paper mixed in a box of snapshots at an antique store. Not regular photo paper; in fact I really don't know what this was printed on, but it shows no dot pattern so it's not a halftone.

Though the paper is damaged, the image is surprisingly intact. All the brush strokes can be seen under my loop, no damage to the little girls face. She most certainly needed rescued from the box before greasy fingers were run across her rosy cheeks.

Coy and LIGHTLY TINTED

This lovely young lady was in a collection of photos that belonged to my friend Burt. There's no information about her, and as you can see one of the photos is in focus, the other not so much.

The hand tinting is much better than the others I have shown this week. I think the first one would have looked nice in a frame on her true loves dresser. Okay, the skin tone is a wee bit on the pancake makeup side...downright Martian looking, but the cheeks and eyes are nice. So two out of three galactic points.

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