Adding color to prints

Soft World wColor
With some color, then …
Soft World print 4 draft 4
It changes to become this!
Ballpoint No I Who is Dancing now
And here I added color to an overlay of two prints, but it isnot done yet…

Ballpoint No I Who is Dancing NowAdding color to prints by hand, using paint or drawing materials, is an old tradition. Hand tinted prints, colored by the original artist (usually the printmaker was not the artist, but the skilled craftsperson!), may be more valuable than editions of prints untouched by the original artist. Of course the value of the print depends most heavily upon the following: the artist must be 1) dead, and 2) famous.

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