Altered Book Class

 

Just started another altered book class.  We have so much fun with these!  Saturday night’s class covered the basics—how to rip, how to glue (Have I ever mentioned that glue is my favorite medium?), how to create a recess in a cover, la, la, la.  Being an Entropy Accelerator (a.k.a. a Chaotic Person), however, I did formulate my own method that works pretty well for me. I always try to create structure for things—just because I have to—and I realize that that takes the fun out it for some people, so I made the usual disclaimer: the most funnest thing about ABs is that they don’t have any rules, period.  I like to leave things open so that people can do their own thing if they want and I don’t believe that people need to follow my rules.  As you get to know me, you’ll learn that I’m a pretty laid back person, except for when it comes to something/someone putting their rules/restrictions on me.  That will usually lead to a screaming mi-mi.  Anyway, (I ramble a lot, too, btw) we all managed to get down and dirty with our ripping and gluing sides before the night was up and everyone starting making plans for the beautiful and creative bits of art that their books will become. I’m really excited for our next class. We’re going to bring out the paint, the Vintage Milk Paint especially, and start working with color and texture.  I love, love, love color and texture!!  I’ll update you afterwards!  Ciao, Ladies!

Love, Jessica

P.S. If you’re interested, everything I taught this evening can be found in the Vintage Paint Works tutorial: Altered Book Innards.