A very basic list at this point..
- Digital File - In Photoshop, de-saturate it, invert it, Re-size it to 9"x6.5" and print out to the best quality possible on Acetate (CRU). This will give you a massive negative to make a contact print with.
- Digital File - Using Youtube, find a tutorial and follow the instruction and make a line drawing from one of your digital images (Or many). Print out onto photo-copy paper or similar and then re-colour using crayons, pens, gouache, acrylic, water-colour, marker pens, high-lighters or any mark-making media to put colour back into the image. Try rough methods, bold colours, fine lines, washes -basically anything, be experimental! Once finished, scan and re-digitize (Keep the hard copy version as that's the one we'll assess and be most interested in). Once digitized - you could take it to another developmental step and merge this version with the original, playing with the opacity and off-setting slightly?
- Using Photoshop, look for a Julian Opie style tutorial, turn your portraits (Hopefully Deadpan) into Julian Opies?
- Look around for other methods such as techniques that make your images look like Andy Warhols.
- Watch the video here "Take on Me" by Ah Ha, look at the approach of mixing photographic with drawing - this is an easy thing to do in Photoshop - maybe try this?
- More advanced; Once you've seen the potential of hand-tinting photographs when they've been re-produced on fibrous supports (Papers), explore traditional materials... Hand-tint your Black & White prints produced in the darkroom (Use test strips and rejected images first) with water-colours and oil paints.
- Taking this even further - re-visit the use of liquid emulsion and hand-tint images produced in that way.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/17717/1/peter-beard-wild-thing-interview
Check this link out too, this is another really good example of mixed media using animals with a dark feel to them http://www.arnaublanch.com/index.php?/art/exotika/
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