This page is from the cool book:
Image Art Workshop
Creative Ways to Embellish and Enhance Photographic Images
and it got me thinking......
Click on the image to enlarge and read how to use bleach and wax crayon or rubber cement to mask off an area of a photo to prevent the bleach from going in that area.
You can see some more examples bleached photos in this post.
Well the top image made a light bulb in my head go off and I went to by stack of photos to craft with and pulled out one with a bee on it. Then I brought the photo over to my Cricut and only cut out
"BE"
Get it??
I did a test to see where I could get the bee in the letter "B".
I got half the bee in both the positive and half in the negative.
I then glued each to a card. I then went surfing the internet for some sympathy quotes. I thought the be/bee made a nice image for the cover of a sympathy card.
I found these quotes:
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~Rossiter Worthington Raymond
I am going to print these out on some nice paper and glue them on the inside of the card.
Then back into the Card Album for safe storage.
If you have photos and want use them in your art grab yourself a copy of this book and you will most certainly be very busy making and altering them into mini masterpieces!
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.
Q & A Time
Alex posted this question:
Shoot!
I posted the wrong comment here. My question is: what kind of stone is
the best for carving with a Dremel? The rocks in my yard are too hard. Well, I didn't know the answer to this question. I had only drilled one rock and it was not easy. So I typed in something like" how to carve stone." and I found this great web page over at Dremel packed full of great info. I hope this helps! I certainly learned a lot. Keep those questions coming in for a chance to win a free book and bobbin winder.
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