Laura Tetrault

In my travels I have been playing with the idea of altered books off and on for the last couple of years. I have completed at least one (which I am ashamed to admit I dismantled since I couldn't store it on a shelf properly - the hardware I installed in it made it impossible to close). Since then I have been collecting smaller, more attainable books to alter! =)

Some part of me likes that I am writing in a taboo place. You aren't supposed to add your own text and illustration to your books - everyone's mom has told them that at least once (or is that just me?)

I am facinated by the pages that artists upload from their sketchbooks and also from altered books. There is a whole series of people who work in this media. Check out Altered Book Artists and ATC artists if you want to see some of the work. I think that it is fascinating to add bits and pieces of your everyday life, napkins, ticket stubs, receipts is fair game. Stickers, coins, beads, necklaces are things I have used as well, as acrylic paints, watercolour and oil pastels. I am working on a project that is in the same family as altered books with a friend of mine. I mail her a postcard with an image, she alters the image and sends it back. I make some changes and mail it back. Its lots of fun and it is always interesting to see how someone else responds to my ideas and visa versa. When we decide it is done I will photograph it and post it for your comments.  Maybe I will photograph the process, so we can all see the changes.

In the meantime, check out these websites to get an idea what the work that journal artists do.

Altered Book Artists

My blogspot has other site links

Artist Trading Cards

ATCs

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