Juxtapositions 1 Visitor Feedback 1. Ron Irvine 2. So they used black and white to copy a 3 dimensional, texture and colour rich image.
Painters use their medium to create an image rich in texture, shape, colour and emotion.
You can not get the same feel from a colour photo or scan. Black and white is one more step away from the original. The artist uses the medium to create the image, a copy in another medium will be different. Converting a scanned image to black and white is non trivial. Black and white is rarely black and white.