Montage Mirage Photo Tapestries: How to Create Photo Art from Your Heart

Artist and author Gwen Cheryl Lyn Sarandrea shares her original techniques and fresh approach for preserving memories in her book, Montage Mirage Photo Tapestries: How To Create Photo Art From Your Heart

This book, through charming examples of the author's personal collection of full-color individual and family photo tapestries, accompanied by moving text and easy-to-follow instructions, demonstrates how readers can convert their cherished photographs into meaningful montages and collages without knowing how to draw, paint or use a computer. It teaches readers how to create customized, one-of-a-kind artworks suitable for framing from their collection of prized photos of people, pets, projects and places.

Always color copy your precious photos onto photo paper first, then work with the copies so you have nothing to lose.

Sarandrea captures a moment in time by clustering important individual and group photos into dynamic visual stories. Layering photos Montage Mirage style animates personality and character aspects that single photos miss by providing the context within which an entire experience is presented. Follow one of the basic layouts - substituting your own photos - and it will be customized for you.

Montage Mirage Photo Tapestries invents a whole new medium ideally suited to creating portrait keepsakes which can be handed down through the generations.