Painting on photographs

Ivory Coast-based artist Joana Choumali is known primarily for her photography, though her practice has seen her dabble in varied media to explore a common theme. Across sculpture, mixed media, collage, portraiture and documentary, Joana blurs the boundaries of her medium to explore personal identity, African identity and culture. One particularly recognisable piece from her photographic portrait series "_Hââbré, the last generation_":https://joana-choumali.squarespace.com/haabre, which…

A curated exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York this summer explores the approaches of 11 artists who take a needle and thread to photographs.

Aha, suddenly our eye is caught by some beautiful images, which we have conveniently dubbed ‘photo drawing’. Using a waterproof marker to add pretty lines, jokes or patterns onto a picture. Pretty and very easy to copy. At its best on old vintage pictures. Photographer Alexandra Valenti Stephanie Mercado, spotted at www.paperdollsteph.blogspot.nl Posted by: Astrid

Often referred to as a painter in a photographic age, the work of influential twentieth and twenty-first century artist Gerhard Richter is one whose work still resonates today. I'm particularly fond of his photography based paintings, especially the Firenze series, whereas he smears multi-colored paint over photographs and found images to create these dreamy abstracted landscapes. Enjoy!

Han Cao, who is also known as hanwriting on her Instagram account, combines old vintage photographs with her chromatic embroidery.

Photo encaustic begins by printing photographs on paper, adhering the paper to a substrate then painting with encaustic on top of the photo.

In this day and age of Photoshop, we were inspired to explore the lost art of altering photographs by hand with this Altered Photograph Art Project!

I found some lost photographs taken by my father. After I saw these images, I started remembering old times and old friends. However, I did not remember everyone.

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Today, I feature famous abstract photographers who helped to shape how we see photography. They have pushed the boundaries of what is possible and show us