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Caption: A bookish playdate
- Intro to Altered Book Art -
Artist Dates
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Caption: A sunny day in late May '16
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An old book
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A willingness to learn
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A desire to play
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A fun day at Object Book (Artist in Residence), Merton Abbey Mills, London
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Caption: By the River Wandle at Merton Abbey Mills down by the riverside
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Caption: History + Art Merton Abbey Mills is located on the historic Arthur Liberty printing site, which houses two Grade II Listed buildings: a working Victorian water wheel (now a pottery) & a 400 year old medieval theatre
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Caption: This was my carefully selected old book to alter: gorgeous heavyweight vintage paper, illustrations & stories that I know of old ...
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Caption: The altered book art workshop was led by book artist Linda Toigo.
Our workshop host was artist & librarian, Chloe Spicer, Artist in Residence at Object Book.
Object Book has a heavenly host of bookish-art related workshops throughout 2016
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Caption: Chloe had thoughtfully provided a selection of other books for participants to use, if they felt too attached (or too detached!) from their own books!
I fell upon this cutesy book + a paperback copy of Macbeth
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Caption: After a lesson in how to safely use a scalpel, I dived into the cutesy kiddiwink book & defaced Macbeth
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Caption: A few simple tools ...
a bradawl, thick cardboard, metal ruler, pencil, glue, metal rods, self-healing cutting mats, transparent acrylic sheets ...
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Caption: & the pieces are ready to begin their new journey ...
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Caption: Macbeth had been a core text in my English Literature studies back in 1984 😜
My idea was to mix up the darkness of the story with whimsical fae sketches
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Caption: Darkness vs light
Macbeth vs fae & unicorns
- an obvious connection! -
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Caption: Next up was my beautiful vintage book find : the Bible stories
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Caption: Fungi prints from another shared resource added a colourful touch & definition
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Caption: So here they are! My first foray into the world of Book Art
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Caption: Our group's beautiful book art ❤️
Huge thank-you's to Linda Toigo & Chloe Spicer for a fabulously playful day!
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