Camping Texas: The Memories

Mixed media in all its forms--not just traditional two-dimensional, paper-based collage but three-dimensional pieces that include fiber, fabric, a variety of embellishments, found objects, and even repurposed and recycled materials--offers artists an opportunity to move freely across the boundaries of art, craft, painting, quilting, and collage. In Adventures in Mixed Media, Jane Davies shows you how to use this art form to enrich your creative expression.
In lessons that inspire creativity, Jane demonstrates a variety of techniques using paper, fabric, embellishments such as beads, feathers, and ribbons, fusible and nonfusible fibers, and even foamcore. Books, bags, mini-quilts, personal shrines, and paper dolls are just some of the projects inside--and of course Jane emphasizes ways to incorporate photos and other personal memorabilia and details into your art. Whether you are a beginner and want to start with techniques like -scribble painting- or -basic collage, - or an expert collage artist eager to learn new uses for familiar materials, this is the book to guide your creative explorations in collage and mixed media.

Pro photographer Boyd Norton provides expert advice and hard-won secrets on digital wildlife, landscape, and nature photography. Guiding you from the field to the computer, he reveals how to create superb nature and landscape photographs with your digital camera. Lenses, lighting, and much more are discussed for the professional and amateur alike. Filled with helpful tips and tricks, this comprehensive volume will hone your technique while expanding your creativity. The ultimate guide for outdoor photographers making the leap to digital!

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.

The first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you may be faced with challenges you hadn't anticipated. You need information that goes beyond the basics. And you need it in a form that does not just tell you what to do but helps you make your own informed decisions.

Drawing on additional information from the John Freeman series, this is a revised and updated edition of our bestselling photography title. In one single, easy-reference volume that covers all the popular themes, techniques and step-by-step approaches to photography, this comprehensive guide will answer all your questions. From black and white photography to choosing the right camera and recent developments in digital processing, this book covers every aspect of modern photography. Filling in any gaps that may have been left out before, this is the complete one-stop resource for photographers of all standards.

Birthday parties, graduations, vacations, family time, and fun days with friends: girls want to remember every moment. They can, with this cool collection of irresistible and very doable scrapbooking ideas. Targeted to 'tweens and teens, it explains how to make beautiful, personal, keep-them-forever memory albums.