Natalie, Altered Book

Altered Book and Translation #2

This is my first time constructing a Altered Book. The first few days I was completely lost in what I was doing. My artistic mind is programmed to create realistic things so it was difficult to turn the switch off. It was hard for me to “let-go” and explore. I struggled the first 2 days of class. Pages didn’t link to each other, I had no rhyme or reason for putting things together. I was “playing”. However, on the 3rd day I had an awaking. My cup fell into a pile of paint and I picked it up and started stamping. I loved the print it made so I decided to carry its throughout the book. While making the altered book, I had an idea of how I could incorporate it in my class. Below is lesson that I could do with my students

Course: Drawing and Painting I
Unit: Multimedia
Lesson: Personality Collage.

Goal: After a series of personality tests, research, writing and exploring media, Students will complete an intimate
collage based off of their finding and investigation of their personality.

Objective: Students will learn, analyze and create a work of art based off of their personality. Students will learn
how art work can have deep emotional meaning.

Activities:
1. Visual Aids, Technology Aids Library and Web Research
2. Techniques and demos
3. Class discussions
4. Writing, exploring and sketching
5. Final project, 18X24 Personality Collage.
6. Presentation and Critique.