Artist Statement of Rich Stedman:
My art career started in the photography field in 1974. Ansel Adams had a profound effect on the direction my photography. Ansels' fine art, large format black and white prints was the style I tried to emulate. After many years, I started to become interested in hand coloring black and white prints. The process of hand coloring is similar to painting with oil, however the shadows and highlights were not as variable as I would have...more