Feb 27
This is my sister’s art journal. We made a pair of them and took turns doing pages. She currently has mine, and I have one page left to do in hers. We might take a while to finish it, as we are in the middle of another art project, the altered book round robin.  Reproduction allowed courtesy …
Feb 19
This is the altered book that my sister started for our round robin. It’s quite difficult to photograph them, as they don’t want to lie flat. I hope I can come up with a better way, maybe a clear acrylic plate holder or something. I might paint the scene behind the door (the hinges work!) …
Jan 15
After the leather dried, I painted it with acrylic paint. They do sell dyes for leather, but the guy at Tandy, who was perfectly willing to sell me hundreds of dollars of crap I don’t need, said that acrylic would work just fine. I first painted the sun red, then painted over it with gold …
Jan 14
Here’s the cover I’m doing for my altered book. I used a piece of vegetable cured leather, 4-5oz.  I wanted to have the look of cord-bound book, so I wrapped plastic over the book (to protect it from water) then wound it with twine. I got the leather wet and stretched it over the twine to …
Jan 13
Altered Book 7Â Altered Book 6Â Altered Book 5Â Altered book 4Altered book 2 Altered book 1I started a round-robin altered book project with three other artists. Each of us chose a book and altered it in some way. I chose to alter the structure, and cut windows through the pages. I used paste and scraps of paper …
