I’ve long fancied the idea of making an ‘altered book’, and have finally made a start on one!
I chose a slim volume for my first endeavour – a little book of poetry for children, written in Greek….
I started pasting the pages with gesso and was soon drawing into them with luscious Inktense pencils….
and acrylic ink on a stick…..the gesso and matt medium covered pages form a lovely resist to the watercolour added later….
Am not sure quite what this book’s about….it seems to be turning into a place to play….
a creative place to try out unfamiliar materials and explore new ways of working….
a place to get away from the fear of ‘spoiling the page’ that often arises with a posh sketchbook…
Somewhere to really mix up the media and combine text & line with gesso, ink, watercolours, crayons, wax and acrylics…
I’m re-visiting some familiar images and re-purposing existing sketches….
as well as drawing completely from memory & imagination….which is a lot of fun and makes a change to continually drawing from observation….I love the way bits of the original poems show through here and there….
2 thoughts on “An Altered Book”
Poetry on poetry!
Knew to your website here and looking in to the dates before this, I wondered “when will she paint to children?”
I just love your simple drawings from sketchbook. They tell stories behind the lines. The universal story about the flowers. “Pics of Life”. (sorry if I´m babbling)