Altered state
If you have damaged photos that you don’t want to just throw out, you can repurpose them for a myriad of different creative projects.
- Alter them such that you can transform them into something else entirely. This could involve adding fantastical elements, abstract elements, additional body parts such as wings, augmenting with contrasting or abnormal colours, and the like.
- If you want to use materials that would normally not adhere to a photographic surface, you can use clear watercolour ground on top. Once dry, you can paint on the surface more easily with watercolours, or draw on them with various types of pen.
- You can create some different effects by adding the clear ground over the entire image and doing light washes to let the image show through the added colour. You can do this on colour images as well as black and white.