Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Altered Books

altered book left pagealtered book insidealtered book coveraltered book right pagealtered book spread

Altered Books, a set on Flickr.
I recently finished my first altered book! I've been wanting to try it for a few years but finally found the right idea for finishing one book. I set it up to stay open to this two page spread and I have another book that I will try out different ideas in and will be able to flip through.

Next month, I will be making a little presentation on altered books to my county Arts organization. I have been using Pinterest to collect different examples to show and it has worked great so far. You can see the altered book examples I've collected so far here: http://pinterest.com/katiemorris/altered-books/

5 comments:

  1. Katie, great Pinterest board! I did several posts w/altered books mostly back in the fall I think, and I taught a workshop about altered books at my state conference. Here's where they are, in case you want some student images: http://plbrown.blogspot.com/search/label/altered%20books

    These altered books were all done by 6th graders (except for mine, which I still need to complete).

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  2. Thanks, Phyl! This morning I came across a photo I saved from your blog that just said "photo credit Phyl" and thought to myself that I needed to find the post again!

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  3. Your Pinterest altered books are amazing. I could never destroy a book like that, even for art's sake. Just don't think I could do it, but it's so cool!

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  4. Most of the time when someone alters a book, it's headed for a recycling bin or a dumpster. So I think it's more saving a book than destroying a book! Plus the money I paid for the book went to my local library to be used to buy new books! The book I used was actually a really old math book with brittle pages that no one had probably looked at in 50 years.

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  5. Yeah, the books we used were grammar books and math textbooks that were heading to their grave. So we saved them!

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