How to add outlines to a photo from the book Image Art Workshop by Paula Guhin

Check out this cool technique of outlining and accentuating the contours of a photo from the book

Image Art Workshop
Creative Ways to Embellish and Enhance Photographic Images
By
Paula Guhin

Click on the image to enlarge and read more about how to alter a photo with silver and gold markers.

Image Art Workshop
Creative Ways to Embellish and Enhance Photographic Images
By
Paula Guhin

This book teaches you 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. The photo is now an art medium that can be altered physically or digitally to create all kinds of effects. You can cut, color, collage, and camouflage to your heart’s content!

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.

To see more from this comprehensive book on altering photos, click on the Image Art Workshop link below!

Comments

[BrendaLea]

I wish the first part of that article 3as in your post, because that didn't really tell you how to create the art on the photo. The book sounds very interesting though.

[Judi FitzPatrick]

The book sounds like a great addition to the library of anyone interested in creating something new and different. Thanks for sharing!