Tag: Hand Made Books

Wishes–Mixed Media/Altered Book Pages

Details of pages from altered/mixed media book Wishes. The text pages were folded and glued then folded as pages. Then they were altered in some way, painted, stamped, collaged with found text, etc. Once the pages were done I sewed them altogether inside a pale blue leather scrap bound with a long stitch and weaving. There…

Wishes–Mixed Media/Altered Book

Cover of Wishes–Mixed Media/Altered book.  The pages were made from the leftover  text pages cut out from other altered books.The text pages were folded and glued then folded as pages. Then they were altered in some way, painted, stamped, collaged with found text, etc. Once the pages were done I sewed them altogether inside a pale…

Flower Feelings Cloth and Paper Book

This is a book made from watercolor paper painted with acrylic and then mosiac'ed with black and white magazine paper.  Followed with another layer of some acrylic and pen drawn whimiscal flowers to express feelings and some adjectives.  This was fun to create and I love the look of black and white magazines "tiles" washed…

Treasure Map to my Art Pens and their Qualities – Cover

Page of Art Pens Treasure Map Journal. I wanted to be able to tell the qualities of my pens without keeping all of the packaging. This was my solution. The book paper is antiqued watercolor paper, the inset pages are acrylic painted watercolor and the maps are tissue paper torn to look like maps. As…

Treasure Map to my Art Pens and their Qualities – Legend

Page of Art Pens Treasure Map Journal. I wanted to be able to tell the qualities of my pens without keeping all of the packaging. This was my solution. The book paper is antiqued watercolor paper, the inset pages are acrylic painted watercolor and the maps are tissue paper torn to look like maps. As…

Treasure Map to my Art Pens and their Qualities

Page of Art Pens Treasure Map Journal.  I wanted to be able to tell the qualities of my pens without keeping all of the packaging.  This was my solution. The book paper is antiqued watercolor paper, the inset pages are acrylic painted watercolor and the maps are tissue paper torn to look like maps.  As you…

Crepe Myrtles … Who Knew? Transition between Adult and Aging

This is the 7th and 8th page in study on Crepe Myrtle and Life Art Journal / Book. Mixed Media on Watercolor paper with vintage photos. The top part of the comparison between adults and the bottom the comparison to aging and the lifecycle of a Crepe Myrtle tree.  Acrylic paint, vintage and current photos…