Harbor Horse, photograph by Liv Kristin Robinson
Create an extraordinary work of art by transforming a black and white photograph using the historic technique of hand-painting in the Hand-painting Black & White Photographsworkshop at Penobscot Marine Museum. This intensive workshop, led by fine-art photographer Liv Kristin Robinson, explores traditional methods for applying pigments to black & white images. Suitable photos will be provided by the museum or bring your own black & white, matte surfaced, images. Painting materials will be provided. There are two opportunities to take the Hand-painting Black & White Photographs workshop: Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 to 3:00 pm and Wednesday, August 12, 1:00 to 3:00 pm. The workshop fee is $10, $7 for Museum members and Searsport residents. For more information or to buy tickets call 207-548-0334 or click here.
Liv Kristin Robinson, a Belfast area fine-art photographer who is well known for her hand-painted images, has shown widely. Robinson trained as an artist and art historian in New York City, and her originals are to be found in several private and public collections including The New York Public Library, The Portland Museum of Art, Colby College and the Farnsworth Museum of Art.
Hand-painting Black & White Photographs is part of Exploring the Magic of Photography: Painting with Light,Penobscot Marine Museum’s first major exhibition of historic photography. It includes four exhibits, a walk-in camera, a wall of selfies taken by museum visitors, an historic darkroom, tintype and cyanotype demonstrations, and workshops on making pin-hole cameras. The four exhibits, Through Her Lens: Women Photographers of Mid-Coast Maine, 1890-1920; Twenty Best; Evolution of the Photographic Snapshot: 1888-2015; and The Carters and the Lukes – Selections from the Red Boutilier Collection are filled with inter-active opportunities for visitors including life-sized photographic cut-outs with which visitors may photograph themselves, an online exhibit of visitor photographs and comments, and QR codes and tablets providing access to audio clips of interviews, biographies, and commentary by historians, curators and professional photographers.