I wanted to share the qualities that I look for in books to be used as ART Materials.
When I use books as ART Materials I use:
- Cover cloth – collage and journals
- Book board – new books
- Pages and text – poems and printmaking
- Spine materials and bits – collage
- pockets and old marks – collage
So if you are hunting and gathering books for re-use look at those parts closely.
It is fun to see books with new eyes for what is possible. Sometimes I just use pages as newsprint pickups when gelatin printing.
But then other times the bits and pieces can be worked into an abstract landscape collage.
I hope I have given you some new ways to look at old books that were headed for the recycling bin. Want to join us in the online class, Books as at Materials? Read the details and join us today.