Specialization in Photo-Arts: Techniques and Projects

Introduction

Photography is completely transformed when it merges with other art forms. This is an invitation to experiment freely—combining textures, colors, and techniques such as embroidery, painting, or repetition. Let instinct guide your hands and imagination, turning simple images into expressive works. There are no rules here—only endless ways to tell your story visually.

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Influences | Ofelia & Antelmo

Next, we are going to see my main sources of inspiration when it comes to embroidering photographs.

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What Inspires Me | Carine Wallauer

Knowing the work of other artists helps us to broaden the look and the creative horizon. In this class, I will show you some of my main influences.

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Influences | Amazink

Next, I am going to tell you about some of the screen printing artists who have inspired me the most and inspire me in my creative process.

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Influences | Lina Botero

My artistic influences have always been linked to everything that can fit within the word "poetry". Here I will show you artists who have worked on the thematic and the formal in different ways, but always linking the poetic in their narrative.

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Influences | Mariela Sancari

In this lesson I will share some of my influences, ranging from literature and adaptation of classics to performance and performing arts.

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Photography and composition

In this first lesson I will teach you to observe the image and describe it in order to generate intervention ideas. We will see composition concepts to achieve an interesting photograph and I will also give you tips on where you can find other people's images to work on them.

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Color

The color of an image can be the perfect guide to create harmony in your photo embroidery. In this lesson I will show you how to select the color palettes according to the image you are going to embroider.

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Materials

Next, I will show you different types of paper with which an image can be embroidered. We will review all the materials you need to start embroidering and some that can make your practice more friendly.

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Embroidered photography

Embroidering my photographs, for me, means going back to that place and looking carefully. When the image is intervened, it comes to life and acquires a value. In this lesson I will tell you about the technique of embroidery on photography and I will show you with physical examples all the possibilities that can be achieved with the stitches that we are about to see. By the way, don't forget to start any work or exploration with clean hands!

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Embroider paper 1

In this lesson we will go into the basics to start embroidering on a photograph and we will begin to plan our composition.

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Embroider paper 2

We continue to see little by little the principles and recommendations to embroider the paper.

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Flat stitches 1

Next, we are going to start making a stitch sampler on a photograph. The first ones we will see are the flat stitches.

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Flat stitches 2

We continue to apply the flat stitches to the embroidery of an example photograph to perfect the technique.

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Raised stitches 1

In this lesson, we continue to embroider our relief stitch sampler on a landscape photograph. This time, we will do it with the raised stitches.

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Raised stitches 2

We continue discovering the relief stitches. The one I will show you in this video is called a French knot.

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Raised stitches 3

We finished reviewing the relief stitches by putting the rococo stitch into practice.

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End piece 1

In this lesson I will take you by the hand in the design of the final photograph and we will make the final stitches together.

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End piece 2

We continue embroidering the photo of the project putting into practice the different stitches that we have learned.

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End piece 3

We finish the embroidery by applying a few last stitches to the photograph to achieve its final result. We have it!

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The setback and care

Next, we will see all the possibilities that there are upside down and the necessary care tips to consider before mounting your piece.

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Mounting

Finally, I am going to show you the different possibilities that you have at your disposal to assemble your photo embroidery.

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What we will do in the course

Excited to colorize your own photos manually? In this class, I will present the project that you will develop throughout the course and how this creative process will be.

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Manual coloring in the history of photography

In this class, I will make a brief historical introduction to manual colorization of photographs from the realism of the 19th century to a more contemporary approach.

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Color as a narrative element

It is essential to choose the color palette that best contributes to the creation and enhancement of meaning in your work. That's what I'm going to talk about in this class.

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Choosing your images

Now I’m going to talk a little bit about how to choose the images you’ll color in the next unit.

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Preparing images for printing

In this lesson, I will show you how to prepare your images for printing using Photoshop.

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Papers

Here I will explain a little about the peculiarities of the different types of papers and what is the best choice for each project.

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Materials

In this class, I will teach you what materials I work with most often and also tell you which ones you need to get started with watercolor. In addition, you will find that I always try to explore with new materials, don't be afraid to experiment too!

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Preparing your work table

In this class, you will learn how to prepare and organize your work environment to start your paintings.

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Portrait

Now I will explain how you will produce your first work: a portrait with a more realistic color application.

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Landscape

In this lesson, I will explain how to work with colorizing horizons, landscapes and images of nature with gradients.

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Experimental

In this class, you will experience it! There is no rule in the creation of this last work in the series. You will be able to mix techniques that we have seen before and experiment with others that I will show you here.

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Digitization and reproducibility

In this class, I’m going to talk about the importance of digitizing your images once they’re ready.

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Physical storage

Now let's see how to properly archive your physical images to protect from accidents that damage your surface and ensure long-term color quality.

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Promoting your art

The time has come to publicize your art! I will explain how you can reproduce your creations physically and also on social networks.

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The Photograph

We will start by selecting the most suitable photograph to work in screen printing. To reproduce a full color photograph in silkscreen we have to take certain important things into account, in this lesson I will talk about them.

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Color Separation

Next, I will show you how to create CMYK photoliths and registration marks on each of them to achieve a more accurate registration.

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Materials

In this lesson I will explain the materials needed to perform screen printing and what you will need in your workspace.

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Screen Preparation

In this lesson I will teach you to prepare the screen optimally and I will explain some tricks to get better results.

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Work Space

Next, we will prepare our workspace with all the necessary materials to obtain a clean and precise production.

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Stamping Process 1

Now we stamp the four colors of the process with their respective registers.

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Stamping Process 2

We continue the stamping process step by step. After stamping the yellow, it is time for the rest of the colors.

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Other Ways to Use Silkscreen Photography

In this lesson I want to show you other ways to use silkscreen photography. From the most common, such as taking a photograph in black and white, to making mixed techniques, mixing photographs, photography and collage, photography and post-printing plastic techniques. We will also see other types of weft such as stochastics and color variations.

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Screen Printing in Limited Edition

Next, I will tell you the value of the limited edition and why it is important to sign and number, and then sell each piece as unique and authentic.

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How to Promote Your Work

In this lesson I am going to tell you how to promote your work. We will talk about how to put a price on your work, group exhibitions and much more.

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On Poetry in Images

I will start by showing you some examples of how the fusion of word and image has been worked on in art. I will also teach you in more depth my own projects in which I have managed to put these languages in correspondence, so that you can be inspired in the creation of your project.

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Materials

Next I will present the materials that you can use to create your series of photopoems. These materials are the ones I usually use for my own projects, but it's up to you to let your imagination run wild.

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How Does What We Read Look Like?

Poetry suggests images. One of the most wonderful aspects of poetry is its ability to create images in our minds. Images that allow us to get out of universes that are too specific or too rational to start dreaming. In this lesson, I'll talk about all those possible images that result from reading poetry, and we'll create a mood board with our favorite poem to start warming up our gaze and getting it ready to carry out the course project.

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Playing with The Word

Let me show you a practical exercise that will later help you develop your theme for the project. It's like a kind of brainstorming but in reverse. The idea is not to think. Through a practical exercise such as "automatic writing", you will exercise your mind and play with your own censor to rescue images that transcend reason.

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Raise the Theme

First of all, we will start thinking about the idea for the course project. Or better, we will begin to feel the idea. What do we want to talk about? We will inquire about all those images that can surround a single word, a single theme.

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Creating Images

It's time to create images. And when I talk about images, I mean that they don't necessarily have to be photographs taken with a camera. We will think about which images make up our theme from more metaphorical and less representative points of view.

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Finding the Right Words

Let's continue with the words that will complement our images. To do this, we will take up some of that text that we created in the automatic writing exercise. Taking into account the theme of our project, we will inquire about possible verses for our photopoems.

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Image Selection

In this lesson, I'll walk you through my process for selecting the images that might work best for your project, and you'll see how to analyze why.

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It's Time to Make the Photopoems 1

Now we will create the intervened images with other elements. We will test which texts will be the best to complete our narrative.

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It's Time to Make the Photopoems 2

I will continue here with the following photopoems. I will concentrate on thinking about the project as a kind of frames that need each other to create a small movie.

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Digital or Analog

Finally, I will teach you how to digitize your creations so that you can share them. I will also show you in what physical format I have presented some of my projects.

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Book as a system. Book as an object. Book as experience.

I will start by talking about what a photobook is, what differentiates it from a catalog or book of photography and we will briefly address concepts related to the book as a system, as an object and as an experience, which is activated from its materiality.

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Case studies

I will review a large number of photobooks, designed as case studies, to give us a broader picture of their narrative possibilities.

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Analysis of the materiality of the book

In this lesson we will analyze, through the detailed review of specific cases, what were the decisions taken by the author of the book to develop or communicate his idea.

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Starting from a series of photographs

I will share the work process of my photographic series, Moisés , as a precedent to the creation of my photobook. I will focus mainly on pointing out the characteristics of the series and the images that were later key to the conceptualization of the book.

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Conceptualization of a photobook. What experience do we want to generate with our book?

Now we will see how to link the concept of the photobook to the experience we want to generate for the reader. Thinking about the photobook as an object defined by its materiality, we will study the transit of images conceived as a photographic series to the book.

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Try and failure

In this lesson, we will see sequence and editing based on conceptualization. Under the premise that editing is creating meaning , we will address different approaches to photo editing.

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Crucial decisions

Now we will analyze the fundamental decisions to be taken to materialize the concept.

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What does materiality mean?

We will review the material aspects of a selection of photobooks, seeing different types of papers, types of printing, different binding techniques, materials, formats, sizes, typography and more.

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Different materials, different meanings

We will check, from a practical exercise, how to use different materials and formats can result in completely different books.

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The importance of the physical model

Now we will apply the knowledge acquired throughout the course, seeking to capture the concept of our photobook in a first physical model. The important thing is to always keep in mind that the model will go through many changes and it is necessary to "test" those changes on a paper model, not on the computer screen. Already with our first physical model in hand, we will seek to refine the putting on page of our photos, we will analyze its format and all the decisions we have made in relation to the materials used.

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