This is a great project because it allows students to upcycle something that may have gone into the trash and transform it into into a beautiful piece of sculptural art. From an art therapy perspective, creatively altering a book can be a form of rewriting ones life story through visual journaling. Altered books altered art commonplace book art journal pages art journals art journal techniques scrapbooking texture painting art journal inspiration i use my water colours and my fav ink to paint the pages and make spots and stains. This article examines how altered books can be used in art therapy with adolescents. Altered books, you have access to over 30 prerecorded videos that walk you through the process of selecting a book, preparing pages and developing an idea to investigate via your art. Altered book and visual journaling psychology today. I pull the book off the shelf and look more closely at a few things.
An altered book is a published book that has been changed into a new work of visual art through various art. Altered books, you have access to over 30 prerecorded videos that walk you through the process of selecting a book, preparing pages. Altered book art techniques my top five tips hands up all my impatient and often lazy artists. It is often easier for people to take inspiration from the text on the page than to create their own poems from scratch.
Here are some of my favorite techniques to use in an altered book. Is it just me or does prepping things for forever just put you right off getting started. Any book old novel, cookbook or childrens storybook can be used as a visual journal. Altered book art techniques my top five lazy tips youtube. One of my favorite altered book techniques is to use the text from a hard cover book as the base for developing poetry and related imagery.
It is similar to the process of narrative therapy, but taking the approach a step further through redefining the story through not only words, but also images. The next post in this series will explain this form of visual journaling in more detail. I had a few altered book journals and i followed many. Simple and beautiful altered book techniques for the classroom. Altered book techniques dreams and delights karens whimsy.
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