Tag: Altered Books
The Road to Wealth
Altered book with wearable cuffs. The books original title is The Road to Wealth.It features the materialistic how to of American lifeThe cuffs were created from the niche waste painted with acrylics random dragonflies are stencilled throughout. The fabric was inspired and reflects the landscape I am lucky enough to live in.Gel medium was used to consolidated fibers.Free machine embroidery and…
magpie book spread 4
A dark story sky created with acrylic paints and layers of mulberry with embedded sparkle. The moon and clouds have some fairy sparkle and I am so happy with how all the little tiny paper feathers turned out on the magpie who is flying in on the right hand side.
magpie book spread 4
A dark story sky created with acrylic paints and layers of mulberry with embedded sparkle. The moon and clouds have some fairy sparkle and I am so happy with how all the little tiny paper feathers turned out on the magpie who is flying in on the right hand side.
6 for gold
page 6 of the magpie altered board book. I love working with these paper feathers and creating dimension!
5 for silver
page 5 in the magpie themed altered board book I have been working on
3 for a girl, 4 for a boy
page three of a new altered board book based on the magpies poem. Acrylic paint and paper, Spanish moss,
RAINBOW ALTERED BOOK
I made the cover for the book with Japanese paper painted and altered with pva and acrylic paint. The second layer of paint was Lumiere spray paint, it gave a beautiful sheen to the painted paper. I added crushed onion skins to the wet paper and silk thread waste. The book was embellished with organza ribbon…
make mine stitched
An altered book covered in papercloth hand embroidered. The paper is japanese rice paper the thicker kind, I added diluted pva and acrylic paint, dyed cheesecloth, scraps of thread and silk waste. I stitched the paper fabric by hand and embellished the piece with scraps of paper torn into heart shapes.The signatures inside are watercolor…
Gypsy Sun–Mixed Media Altered Book by Hilary Blackwood
Gypsy Sun is a carved book mixed media book assemblage. I begin with a hand sawed piece of book. I sealed the pages, then I carved the layered Gypsy Sun design by cutting through the pages a layer at a time and sealing it. I then collaged the book piece to a stretched canvas that…