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Altered Book Ideas

Have you ever wondered how an Altered Book is made?

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What Is An Altered Book??? 

For Those Who Have Never Heard Of An Altered Book!

Altered books are unloved, discarded books that are turned into works of art.

They can be part scrapbook, part journal, part canvas, part mad experiment.

Altered books are an on-again off-again passion of mine. I love the concept and have gathered a collection of books, stamps, papers and ephemera that should allow me many hours of creativity.

Altered books are a creative means of exploring your world. This multi-medium process of resurfacing of an otherwise "dead" book provides an opportunity to experience a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional embodied process of creativity.

Have A Look At This INcredible Altered Book 

Check out these amazing backgrounds and techniques used in this wonderful Altered book. It is truly an inspiration!

Altered books*Virgenes*

Altering books is a fast growing kind of art that I fell in love with, I usually use old big books and cover them all so I won´t have trouble with copy rights, so, here is one for you to enjoy about Virgins wich I adore! Thanks for being cool and rate my work!!Visit my blog at: http://monicazuniga.blogspot.com/

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Altered Books Are: 

Altered Books Are:

1: A book which has been Altered (changed)into a piece of ART by painting, drawing, gluing stuff on, stamping,or beading over the print, collaging onto the pages or cutting a niche and putting items into it.

2: There are No Rules in making an altered book so the pages can be cut, folded, glued together and you can cut niches into the book

3: The pages can be covered with fabric, polymer clay, you can make textile pieces and pockets and put hidden messages in your Altered Book

4: The main thing is to have fun and let your creative side out!

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My Experience With Altered Book Round Robins 

I was introduced to Altered Books before they became a main stream art. I was very fascinated with them and interested to know more about them, so I started a yahoo group and invited some friends of mine who were Fiber Art Dolls Designers. They were keen to explore different mixed media art like a hobby as their dolls were their main job.

We started doing Altered Book Round Robins, where we would choose a theme for our books, then each start our own book. Every month or so we would send our own book to the next person on the list to do their thing in our books. Usually we would do a couple of double page spreads in each Altered book, then send it to the next person.


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At the same time we would receive a book from another artist and would have to tune our creativity into their chosen theme and work in their books.

This was a sometimes daunting task and it was also so exciting to see what others were doing and learn new techniques.

Finally the time came to get our own Altered books back. What an exciting time it was. Once in a while we would be a bit dissapointed about work done in our book,  but most of the time we were thrilled and so grateful for the beautiful art work that we got to keep for the rest of our lives. I would encourage everyone to give this type of art a go, its so much fun and you really can not go wrong.

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Use a Childrens Board Book To Make An Altered Book 

One of the easiest ways to make an Altered Book is to start with a children's Board Book.

You can usually get these books on sale so they don't cost you an arm and a leg.

This saves hours of gluing pages together and these books have very thick pages so they tend to hold together better in the long term.

What you do is use Gesso to paint over the shiney pages to start with then you can use acrylic paint and handmade and other paper techniques to get the base of your page before adding ephemera and other 3 dimensional objects.

Some people say that you need to give the pages a light sanding first but I have never done that and never had a problem

The picture is of a book that I altered the cover of.

Altered Book Idea Reminder

Go To your local thrift shop and buy a book with a nice stable cover. Then you will be ready to Alter your First book!

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New Directions in Altered Books

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For several years now I thought I was done with the concept of an altered book, but then I hadn't seen or read Gabe Cyr's book until this summer. Gabe puts to shame other authors who have come along and offered us formularic ways in which to create--to alter--by intoxicating us with new paths, stimulating our senses and re-invigorating this old dog into thinking once more of reclaiming a tired, discarded friend and turning her into a piece of art.

Her steps are easy to follow, but she doesn't instruct so much as lead one along a path to one's own creative urges and juices. It is this ability to arouse the creative urge and the plethora of eye candy she has included in the book that makes this among the best books on the subject of altered books!

If you want to learn, or regain your excitement about altered books, this is the book to own!

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Why Would You Want To Create an Altered Book ? 

Altered Books are a popular way to creatively share words and images and artistic expressions .

Altered Books are a fun and enjoyable way to create new books and journal from old books. By removing pages and painting layouts, unique creations may be made from books, which currently lay on the shelves collecting dust.

Altered books are a popular trend among artists using drawing, painting, collage, as well as other skills like stitching and carving!

The International Society of Altered Book Artists (www.alteredbookartists.com) defines an altered book as "any book, old or new that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art.

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