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“Fabulous Flowers: Roses #1 by Denise Bossarte is a book for all art lovers, especially the mixed media artist, collage artist, scrapbooker, and SoulCollage® card maker who wants to have beautiful, copyright-free images in their art.

The book has beautiful photographs of roses and shows readers various images of roses of different hues, buds, open roses, landscape and close-up shots. The author captures the color, beauty, and personality of each rose through her lens, and her aesthetic eye is evident in the pictures. It is a book for all those who appreciate beauty, nature, and photography.

I liked going through the pictures. They are beautiful and they bring out a good feeling in the minds of readers. I like the author’s thought of choosing a layout where readers can cut out a photo without losing another photo as the pictures are only on one side of the page. The angles and visualization of the photographs will allow readers to enjoy the beauty of roses from different sides, the dew on the roses, the hues of pink, the leaves, the outer and the inner petals, and the way they are, and she brings them alive with her sharp eye.

The book will encourage readers to look at their surroundings with a keener eye and will help them appreciate nature and roses. The author has also given readers the freedom to use her photos in mixed media and collage art. The pictures have their own identity and voice that will heighten the awareness of readers when it comes to observation of their surroundings and presentation of what they have snapped.”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

“Friends in the Garden #1: Do Art Your Way by Denise Bossarte is a creative venture by the artist who has come up with a unique idea to create books of copyright free images that SoulCollage®, mixed media, and collage artists could use without infringing copyright.

The images in this series are of the insects and creatures you see in the garden regularly on flowers; bees, butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, bumblebees, and other insects which the author calls ‘friends in the garden.’ The pictures are aesthetically shot and highlight the author’s creative eye and love for photography.

The 30 individual photographs in the book are spaced in a way that they can be cut out without damaging any other picture in the book. The thought of having an individual page for each photograph is very clever.

The pictures are clear and colorful and the author does an excellent job in capturing life in the garden and its radiance. Her pictures will also encourage you to become observant while walking in the garden and to notice the insects and creatures that you usually will not look at.

The author’s idea of bringing out a book for this purpose is thoughtful. The pictures have an amazing life to them and the clarity and angles make them tangible. This is definitely a good book for all those who work in digital art and who are looking out for images that are free from copyright and can be downloaded without any complications. ”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

“Japanese Gardens # 1: Do Art Your Own Way by Denise Bossarte is a wonderful book that gives enchanting copyright-free images to readers who want to use them for their Mixed Media and Collage Art.

The images in this book, as the title suggests, revolve around Japanese gardens and capture the aesthetic beauty of those gardens, their perennial charm and exquisiteness, giving readers glimpses of the beauty of nature that exists in many ways. The pictures in the book are magical and splendid, and give a lot of options to all those readers who want to use pictures for their Mixed Media and Collage Art.

Japanese Gardens # 1, like the other books in the series, will aid readers who are into Mixed Media and Collage Art and are on the lookout for copyright images for their work. The pictures shared are clear and beautiful and they can be cut out and used as they are printed only on one side.

There are two different sizes of the same picture, giving readers options on what size they require for their art. Flipping the pages of the book is like walking through a dream; the images of Japanese gardens will leave readers enchanted and enthralled.

Denise Bossarte opens the eyes of readers to the beauty of Japanese gardens through the various images and the greenery is soothing and calming and gives a zen-like effect while browsing through the book.”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

Fabulous Flora: Plants #1: Do Your Art Your Way by Denise Bossarte is a useful book for all collage artists, mixed media artists, scrapbookers, or SoulCollage® card makers who are on the lookout for beautiful images which are copyright free that they can use for their art. In this book, the author has images of different types of plants of all colors, shapes, and sizes taken from various angles. Each picture has a small and large image and, like Denise Bossarte’s other books, the images appear only on one side of the page, thereby allowing readers to cut out the pictures without losing any other images in the book.

I liked all the images in this book. They take readers closer to nature and the large images enable readers to see the beauty and uniqueness of the plants. The idea of bringing out books like this is unique as well as helpful because readers do not have to be worried about using the pictures in the book. Having images only on one side of the page is a good idea too. The pictures and the angles from which they have been captured reveal the creativity and aesthetic eye of the author. The author tries to pick out the extraordinary in the ordinary world, and the book encourages everyone to become more observant of their surroundings and the natural beauty around them. The variety of plants, along with their images and close-ups, are a real treat for all garden and nature lovers.”

~Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

“Fabulous Flora: Trees and Leaves #1: Do Your Art Your Way for Mixed Media and Collage Art by Denise Bossarte is a creative book for all art lovers, collage artists, mixed media artists, and scrapbookers who want to include beautiful, copyright-free images in their artwork. This book has a good collection of trees, leaves, landscapes, and their close-up views that will draw readers closer to nature. The author’s artistic eye in capturing the beauty of nature encourages readers to observe their surroundings better and enjoy the beauty around them, despite leading busy lives.

I like the author’s thought of having a layout on just one side of the page so that the images in the book can be cut out to use in any piece of art. She also gives a large and a small image of each photograph. The trees and leaves in the pictures look fabulous and will connect readers to nature and motivate them to take a walk in their own gardens and in areas where there are a lot of trees. The essence, sights, and sounds of nature come alive through these pictures of trees and leaves. The author also gives reasons why the Do Your Art Your Way series was born and how her fellow student’s personal experience of using an image from a free image site gave her the idea and the drive, purpose and desire to create books of copyright free images so that artists can use them without worrying about copyright.”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

Just making space

Just making space

“Ever heard of a collage? No, not the place you earn a degree. A group of photos pasted together on a page or board … a glorified form of scrapbooking. Well, when you use all your own photos, things are easy. But there can be copyright issues when doing collages in a more professional realm with photos other than your own. Based on a friend’sand her own bad experiences with copyright issues for pictures in their collages, Denise Bossarte decided enough was enough. As a professional photographer, Denise decided to put together a collection of her pictures for others to use without the fear of copyright infringement. And so Fabulous Flora: Cactus #1: Copyright Free Images for Mixed Media and Collage Art was formed. The book contains 30 unique images of cacti on their own pages so you can cut one photo out without cutting one on he other side. There are two pages of big photos followed by a page with two smaller copies of those same photos, for a total of 30 large and 30 small photos ( two copies of each picture).

I love looking through photography books, so I grabbed Denise Bossarte’s book, Fabulous Flora, expecting a normal “art” book. When I realized her goal, providing artists with quality photographs to use without fear of reprisal, I was thrilled. Not only are the photographs of the cacti gorgeous on their own, but the format makes it easy to cut out pages to use in projects. A splendid offer for the art community. The work of a generous and caring soul. Beautiful work, great mission.”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

“Fabulous Flowers: Bouquet #1 by Denise Bossarte is a book of photography that focuses on Bossarte’s collection of floral images, shot herself and for universal public use. There is little in the way of pretext when this book is taken in hand; however, readers who enjoy sharing their personal collages, scrapbooks, SoulCollage® cards, or any other form of craft work can partake in Bossarte’s generous contribution to the art without risk of copyright infringement. The photographs are well presented and thoughtfully displayed with a blank back-side to avoid having to choose between one flower or another. They are also beautiful in both angle and aspect, but it’s truly the colors that steal the show here – vibrant, razor-sharp, and polished – and Bossarte arranges a total of sixty botanical beauties, thirty large and thirty small, for the artist in us all.

While I have never personally created collages or made a scrapbook, I do have the most wonderful memories of making little laminated boxes with my mother, using the traditional art of Victorian decoupage. We’d scour magazines for hours, hunting down glossy photographs, meticulously cutting them out and fixing them to box blanks before laminating them. Had a book such as Fabulous Flowers: Bouquet #1 by Denise Bossarte been available at that time, I’m certain it would have been a welcome, worry-free asset to the craft. It’s a beautiful collection and I would very highly recommend this book to anyone who uses floral photography in any art form.”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review

“Are you an artist who revels in creating collage images using found objects, including pictures from magazines and greeting cards? Or how about images off the internet? There are plenty of images to browse on the internet, but what images can you safely use without suffering a lawsuit from an angry photographer? You certainly weren’t planning to steal anything; certainly not someone else’s work. Even if you sourced the image, you could still face charges. It makes the simple thought of quickly finding that perfect image something that you want to avoid at all costs. Even if the collage work of art actually glorifies the original image.

Fine art photographer, poet and collage artist Denise Bossarte, has come up with a solution to help all of us in our pursuit of that perfect image. She has produced a number of books that contain only her photographs. And the best part is that these images are available for everyone to use. Glorious Gardens #1: Do Your Art Your Way: Copyright Free Images for Mixed Media and Collage Art is a collection of spectacular art photographs of – you guessed it – beautiful gardens and flowers. Although the book may well be intended to help collage artists find the images they need to create inspiring works of art, the images make it the perfect coffee table picture book with its images that one can admire over and over again. The images are bright, clear, and full of brilliant natural collages of color. It’s a garden lover’s dream to view images such as these. Well presented and a great idea!”

– Reader’s Favorite 5 star review