4 posts tagged “altered books”

Here is the altered book update. (I am working on this book with mah peeps over at teh Cute Talk.)
Here is the front cover!  I am sorry Metsakins, but I had the glitter, and it just sort of happened. I lost my head in a moment of weakness....
UPDATE: To quote Inigo Montoya "let me splain, no, there is to moische, let me sum up"
What this is is an altered book- you take an old book, and make art all over it by gluing stuff on it, painting it, what ever your little heart desires. In this case, glitter. This is a old hard backed book that I got at the library sale for 20 cents. It started out old, and black, and I painted it blue and glued some catatstic pics on it. Mah peeps at cute talk are gonna pass this baby around, through the mail, and cute it up, and I will post the pictures. It is for fun. Calling it a "lexicon" is altered book speak for the fact that everyone who gets the book will do a letter of the alphabet, for their pages, because it gives you a place to start. I had this idea, and some of the peeps on Cute Talk signed on. It will probably take about a year for everyone who signed up to play to get their turn, because half the fun of a round robin  book like this is how it lurks on your desk, while you  try to think of what to do so you can pass it on. If there are Voxers who want to get in on the ac-shons, you can pm me, and I will fill you in. Maybe we can start a couple of different books, cause the Cute Talk one will be full of jokes of the inside kind...Maybe we need a CO/ Vox version....What do you all think?

 

Here are the first few pages of my new altered book based on the books Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. I am totally obsessed, I have been staying up late every night for a week working on these. Aimee and Lisa: I will put notes on each picture in the comments! I am hoping to get these done and sent to you, Aimee, before I go to girl's camp next week. Enjoy:

I had some time tonight to get work done on the Twilight book I am making with my sisters. The book is about vampires, and it is the classic story of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy turns out to be a vampire, and girl doesn't care. He struggles not to kill her on accident, whilst she pines to be a vampire. It is a really fun read- I loved it. Anyway, we are doing this book round robin- I am going to do some of the pages and then send it to one sister- she will then send it to another sister who will work on it more. Here is the cover: 

I am an artist. It is a weird thing to say out loud. When people ask, what do you do? and I say I am an artist, they eye me up and down and are not sure what to make of me.  When I fill out a form that says "Occupation" I always fill it in with Artist. I don't make any money with my art, but it is what fills me up and keeps me going. Even now, when I don't have a lot of time to make anything, I have dreams about the project I have on the back burner. Right now I am working on an altered book about the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. What is an altered book? It is an old book that has been changed to be a work of art. Some approach altered books like extreme scrap booking, while for me it is a 3 dimensional canvas with endless opportunities. I'm going to try an blog some of the pages as I do them for this new book, but in the meantime,  I will upload pictures from the last book I did based on the movie Practical Magic.