Pharmacy - Weller's Pharmacy 1915 Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Pharmacy - Weller's Pharmacy 1915 Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1915
Original Title: Weller's drug store, S & I SE
Location: 755 Eighth Street SE, Washington DC
I put this one off for a while, due to the sheer complexity of it. Colorizing this was similar to doing an entire city block scene. There was simple so much detail in it.
Damage wise, it was pretty clean, but there were many dark areas that had hidden detail. Those fold out stools, spittoon in the corner, all of that was lost in shadow.
The woodwork in this is simply divine, if you look carefully it has a number of human and animal heads in it. I tinted the carvings with gold to make them pop more. Each medicine has its own color. I tried looking up as many as I could read, but I could only find like 15 of them. Colors on the glass bottles are guesses and aesthetically matched up.
The ceiling was probably all white, though the shading in the back made me think that the border was a different color. I wanted to add some brightness and depth to the room, so I colored it with gold highlights and left the rest a cream color. These are real gas lamps, you can see the soot on the ceiling.
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November 11th, 2015
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