Good news! One of my altered book spreads created during this course was accepted for the 30th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition at the Cro...

The mini collages work well with the concept of studying forms from nature such as the bird nest and using cut paper scraps to create a loo...

And so it goes, the altered state produced by the of creation of book art. It's not as if I do not already have enough books in the stud...

Altered Book, Translation #1 I really loved this project. I found that altering a book was, in many ways more fun than creating a sketchboo...

The one minute drawings were probably my favorite activities, as I was forced to just dive right in and create these drawings without judgme...

As we observe and draw inspiration from nature we acquire the basic principles of color, form function, geometry and symmetry. For my projec...

Project Book, Translation #2 Although I felt rushed to complete my project book, it came out as well as, or better than my altered book. I l...

The Altered Book project was so intense. When I took these images I felt like I was holding rich cloth. Every page tells it's own story ...

Some people are restless, tossing and turning-type sleepers; others are still while they dream. I am fascinated by the idea that even in ou...

I'm adding a second set of found drawings because I saw these and loved them. To me they look like they could make great abstract paint...

#1 The older students would enjoy making the Altered Book. I would use small children's "golden books" for the basic support,...

I almost missed posting the flag book. It appears to be a great assignment for teaching kids. Since my classes are mostly adult, I'm n...

Driving back to Nashville today, I had another "Ah Ha" moment with the altered book! In giving me this book, Lauren forced me to ...

here is my project book. I continued to work on the all my books after class got out, and here I am representing the work I did on the proje...

These are my favorite spreads from my Everything Book. I find it funny I selected to post these drawings because…. after drawing doughnuts ...

here are my found drawings.

Doughnut Drawings One-Minute Sculptures Mini-Collages The everything book is a great concept for keeping up with class notes, short assign...

These two projects were great 1 day projects and could even be expanded to more if desired. I think high school students would love to creat...