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Altered art book: page 16 Shooting at Cross Purposes
Posted in ART, MY ALTERED ART BOOK PAGES with tags afterlife, altered art boo, ART, artist, crosses, empire of junk, ghost hunting, page, question of life and death, spiritual progress, targets on January 26, 2009 by echostainsAltered book: in the beginning
Posted in MY ALTERED ART BOOK PAGES with tags acrylics, adding colour, altered, altered book, ART, chosen text, collage, different media, Echostains, fabric, ink, magical, mixed media, oil pastel, original text retained, overwhelmed by images, page, paper, ripped pages, scrapbook, transformation, transforming, use of collage, using print, work of art on December 5, 2008 by echostains
Just getting started
I have been interested in altered books for a few years now. I even contemplated making one as part of a project at University, but I never got round to it. There is something magical about transforming the written word into a work of art. The making of such a book incorporates the use of collage, mixed media, paper, fabric and all the media I like working in. I started this book about 3 years ago. I did one page and then forgot all about it until I found it again recently.
In one day I managed to do 4 pages: the next day I did 2. Work on it was very sporadic and I hadn’t been going long before I realised that the print was quite small and was being overwhelmed by the images. It was important to me that some of the original text was retained. This could be a word or a sentence of my own choosing. So I went through the first few pages choosing the text.
I had absolutely no idea of how the page would look in advance, I responded in an instinctual way: the way the words spoke to me! After I had chosen my words, I then went through the book adding colour to pages (including those I hadn’t chosen the text of yet) and employed different media, like oil pastel, acrylics, pen and ink. I ripped, punched and clipped pages wherever I wanted with no thought to how the end product would look, I just knew that I didn’t want it to be ‘pretty’ or like a scrapbook.