I am in love with this book! Check out this cool way to bleach photos from:
Image Art Workshop
Creative Ways to Embellish and Enhance Photographic Images
By
Paula Guhin
This book teaches the reader to think of a photograph as a canvas for a wide range of artistic manipulation and coloring techniques.
Once upon a time, you hesitated to even take scissors to a photo (even an imperfect one) because if you lost its negative, you’d also lose that moment in time forever. In this day of digital images and photo printers for the home computer, photographs are easily duplicated, so you never have to be concerned about preserving printed photos.
You can cut, color, collage, and camouflage to your heart’s content. The photo is now an art medium that can be altered physically or digitally to create all kinds of effects.
Paula Guhin is a former educator, visual artist, photographer, and the author of the ever-popular Glorious Glue, Art with Adhesives, published by J. W. Walch, and Can We Eat the Art? Her articles have appeared in School Arts, Instructor, Teaching Today, and many more periodicals. She is also a contributing editor for Arts and Activities Magazine.
Click on the image to read how to bleach a photo.
I tried it and I love how it came out!
In case you can't quite make out what I wrote, it says, "forewarned is forearmed"
That is kind of what lightning is in regards to thunder.
Today's Question:
What is your favorite type of photo to take? Close-up or wide shot?
Leave your answer and you are entered to win a free book!
Close ups!Especially Flowers with dew drops or butterflies.Thanks for letting me enter!Ina
Posted by: Ina Ftacek | July 16, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I love closeups. I am one of those people who believe that true beauty lies in the details (sappy as it sounds), and closeups bring that to the forefront.
Posted by: Tamara | July 16, 2009 at 07:33 PM
Close ups. They are more "artistic".
Thanks a lot!
Posted by: Eliane | July 17, 2009 at 05:37 AM
i would like to be able to take close-ups for the wonderful detail; however, i like wide photos for scenes. i don't have a camera that takes good close-ups, so that is on my list.
Posted by: rush | July 17, 2009 at 08:44 AM
I love to take macro closeup of nature. I especially like the fine detail of leaves, tree trunk, shells and insects.
Posted by: Janet | July 17, 2009 at 09:38 AM
Definitely close-ups. Even when I take wide angle shots, I often end up cropping them to what looks more like a close-up.
I love my camera's macro setting!
Posted by: Eileen | July 18, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Close-ups win hands down! I especially like the side view shot of a face,cast in shadows. I love to layer those images!
Posted by: Kari | July 18, 2009 at 03:02 PM
Definitely close ups, particularly of flowers, grass, tree leaves.
Posted by: denise | July 19, 2009 at 07:02 AM
I'm a sucker for up CLOSE and Personal photos...they just draw me in, engage me in a story....
Posted by: Meaghan (bonafyde) | July 19, 2009 at 05:25 PM
I love to take close ups . . .they are what my eye sees and allow me to save the memory!
Posted by: Renee | July 20, 2009 at 02:05 PM