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Light painting

By Richard Walker

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 05, 2009

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Photography is an art dependent on light. The photographer uses light to paint images on a canvas of film (or pixels, in the digital realm) and paper. Photographers sometimes take it a step further, painting on prints to add color and mood.

Artist Mary Goodrich uses this method in many of her works, a selection of which is shown here. She began taking photographs in 1970, working in color. Later, she began exploring black-and-white as well as infrared film. "I like black-and-white infrared film in the way it records unusual tonalities and an unexpected ambience," she says in her artist's statement.

Goodrich has embraced the art of hand-coloring black-and-white prints, which she says takes several hours to complete. "I use both oils and color pencils and reproduce the hand-colored images as giclee prints," she writes.

Living in Volcano on the Big Island, Goodrich writes that she often doesn't have to travel far to capture images. "I always look for sensual lines, unusual lighting conditions, and pleasing shapes in hillsides, trees and plants. In photographing the figure, I see how the shape of the body echoes that of environmental forms."

More of Goodrich's art can be seen at her Web site, www.marygoodrich.com.

Photography is an art dependent on light. The photographer uses light to paint images on a canvas of film (or pixels, in the digital realm) and paper. Photographers sometimes take it a step further, painting on prints to add color and mood.

COURTESY MARY GOODRICH
"Horses, Waimea": A hand-painted black-and-white photograph taken in 2005. In the darkroom, only a small portion of the negative was enlarged to get the composition Goodrich wanted.

Artist Mary Goodrich uses this method in many of her works, a selection of which is shown here. She began taking photographs in 1970, working in color. Later, she began exploring black-and-white as well as infrared film. "I like black-and-white infrared film in the way it records unusual tonalities and an unexpected ambience," she says in her artist's statement.

Goodrich has embraced the art of hand-coloring black-and-white prints, which she says takes several hours to complete. "I use both oils and color pencils and reproduce the hand-colored images as giclee prints," she writes.

Living in Volcano on the Big Island, Goodrich writes that she often doesn't have to travel far to capture images. "I always look for sensual lines, unusual lighting conditions, and pleasing shapes in hillsides, trees and plants. In photographing the figure, I see how the shape of the body echoes that of environmental forms."

More of Goodrich's art can be seen at her Web site, www.marygoodrich.com.

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