Latest Work - Altered Book

Following on from the Artists' Book Making course I did this year I have been working on this little Altered Book. I've had the book for a while - found it in a second hand book shop a couple of years ago - and wanted to do something with it as it is a lovely little book.

The book is about trees and I decided to alter it by adding material illustrating my own responses to some of the different types of trees described in the book, as well as highlighting and responding to some of the comments in the book itself. I made the (somewhat scary) decision to cut out all the original pages and fit a box rim to the end cover to contain the looseleaf pages I chose to put back in.

It was an interesting project with a lot of possibilities. Once you get over the initial shock of "drawing on" a real book (!), it becomes fun to pick out things that attract your eye or mind and respond to them. 

Willow

Rowan  

 

 

Sycamore

 

 

Chestnut