tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51678490178338022902024-02-19T07:41:41.868-08:00Art-o-BookA blog about art, art books and altered books.Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-39970135179796101682012-11-15T08:10:00.001-08:002012-11-15T08:10:10.958-08:00Altered Book by Brian Dettmer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Altered book artist Brian Dettmer's pieces always amaze me, but this one especially so.<br />
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Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-49362325933850367012009-09-25T15:48:00.000-07:002012-11-15T08:07:08.486-08:00Altered Book #7 - Make Your Garden Beautiful....and they will come<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is an antique book that had beautiful deckled pages, yellowed and aged. But the spine was missing so I decided to cover it to make it look very organic. I gathered some mosses and vines and glued it on the spine and cover. I placed an antique escutcheon on the front cover. Still a work in progress while I altered the inside.<br />
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Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-63524768370304927242009-09-22T18:53:00.000-07:002009-09-22T18:53:17.116-07:00Altered Book #6 The Empty NestThis was a private and boarding school directory before it became a birds nest. I created a mother bird out of clay and placed it in the center of the empty nest. The book was very thick. I used a razor blade(s) to shred it into a nest. It was very theraputic to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut..............<br />
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</div>Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-47825114074386596472009-08-28T19:56:00.000-07:002009-08-28T19:56:26.662-07:00Altered Book #4 A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf HomageThis was a little board book that I skinned and painted a landscape in watercolor. I glued some pages together and cutout a window then embedded a picture of one of my favorite writers Virginia Woolf. Titled after her essay "A Room of One's Own".<br />
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<div>Here is a vintage copy of Sigmund Freuds 'Interpretation of Dreams' book. I found this book at a book sale-I remember reading it 20 some years ago...</div><br />
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<div>I thought it would be interesting to alter this book because I often draw a connection between dreams and art. I sometimes dream of images then use the images in my paintings. I embedded a small watercolor painting of one such recurrent dream into a niche cut out of this book. </div><br />
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<div>I used candle wax to seal the book shut- Freudian symbolism of the subconscious mind being closed to our consciousness.</div><br />
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<div></div>Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-17729386448205909382009-02-18T14:20:00.000-08:002009-02-18T14:45:16.672-08:00Altered Book #2 - A Little Birdie Told Her<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0cbaxspQ3M7znkPKfXet-_ILZfqRrSuC6yY-aL6UnW4BuwKiEAjgBVHofBrFRb1_ucHpGBFX_B8YVBFeI1uxPhYIg1vrqWt3U0ydP4efnm6_boXlLurtxDzIFOovy9QrPqwGnntK3mo/s1600-h/altered+book+015.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304272189819975858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0cbaxspQ3M7znkPKfXet-_ILZfqRrSuC6yY-aL6UnW4BuwKiEAjgBVHofBrFRb1_ucHpGBFX_B8YVBFeI1uxPhYIg1vrqWt3U0ydP4efnm6_boXlLurtxDzIFOovy9QrPqwGnntK3mo/s400/altered+book+015.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgSQVoyjESMMQsodRJLloAgvaDJ3gy30B3k7_SVpGKCQ2qEdTITAXbINQsnklXp3fU9OeFenIXAASzbkUnbzRpvt60kxLJDAOib7YNPRhM4KXf7lq8njsJvIctB19AOa-pwNXoI1g3r8/s1600-h/altered+book+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304271744181149282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgSQVoyjESMMQsodRJLloAgvaDJ3gy30B3k7_SVpGKCQ2qEdTITAXbINQsnklXp3fU9OeFenIXAASzbkUnbzRpvt60kxLJDAOib7YNPRhM4KXf7lq8njsJvIctB19AOa-pwNXoI1g3r8/s400/altered+book+008.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Here is an 75 year old hymnal, heavy, lovely and worn. It has an aged church smell. It's a familiar smell, but I can't place which church. I thought about how many hands held this hymnal over many years, singing voices now silent. I glued the pages together and closed it forever. Before that I carved a niche for a small painting. </div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>I painted a small painting on wood of a woman with a bird on her shoulder. The wood is just a sliver of a 2 x4 with acrylic paint. I used the grain of the wood to accentuate the details. I pushed the painting into the niche with some glue.</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>I purchase several of these old retired hymnals with the intention of giving them a second life as art. I will post some others later...</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167849017833802290.post-77545320663705851762009-02-14T11:39:00.000-08:002009-02-18T14:20:07.778-08:00Altered Book #1 - Visionaries - 3D Alterations<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZcy4U5v2yqCQAav-kgypV4L0fFjhylE7Y14WVU5bw0E1uRmKJ4AdIa4Mu16VjAjj2JD3bK8IfxOd4V67aHby_6Xgx6dmoShXNvrjME3LWmeqHfESTpOnjEy5VE24gcbXJ7OpeNZyLj4/s1600-h/Visionaries+Altered+Book+cover.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302753926002840866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZcy4U5v2yqCQAav-kgypV4L0fFjhylE7Y14WVU5bw0E1uRmKJ4AdIa4Mu16VjAjj2JD3bK8IfxOd4V67aHby_6Xgx6dmoShXNvrjME3LWmeqHfESTpOnjEy5VE24gcbXJ7OpeNZyLj4/s400/Visionaries+Altered+Book+cover.JPG" border="0" /></a> After Alteration<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo9DTmxpQ7ZSLufDBfzklXsrffrGcHSa7OOaQ5gFI3_9TWMmakUicUTYIDXZsdxBGaE1OZkZOVvFT-uI1ufgOEBQiaborrkmr5Tl2SDE-JQmEGqdyG5RYk6m-DWug0vYlakY3M-NlzbDA/s1600-h/Visionaries+Altered+Book+cover.JPG"></a><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PCDpFB8NQhwn_-gOq2vqTmYc0yIUcDI7anFi8gdwaAn36G3vsQTchh5vc_G326calwsjnBG79YmHLLAwWCIeHPfycl0WzdYssnh_TYvCtP4-ncUwWbrFOjOSdZ-c46yZQdGb1Z3YvJU/s1600-h/Visionaries+Altered+Book.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302743245485059186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 291px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PCDpFB8NQhwn_-gOq2vqTmYc0yIUcDI7anFi8gdwaAn36G3vsQTchh5vc_G326calwsjnBG79YmHLLAwWCIeHPfycl0WzdYssnh_TYvCtP4-ncUwWbrFOjOSdZ-c46yZQdGb1Z3YvJU/s400/Visionaries+Altered+Book.jpg" border="0" /></a> After alteration scanned image - kinda eery</p><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><div align="center"><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQnTRMU9x1EXa0A2mqLbb4Ug4rp2EaFXm0lrM48KbSLFrEXxjQYpJ0_25aBzSLrlG_5KfXsN5ejDaLJyT7rqAG7S-8wPYjTp5PZXxNiO2GK6E3nYYU5LQht_ixerWqfPEmPiSZ4k0zIQ/s1600-h/0119art+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302742162463184306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 292px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQnTRMU9x1EXa0A2mqLbb4Ug4rp2EaFXm0lrM48KbSLFrEXxjQYpJ0_25aBzSLrlG_5KfXsN5ejDaLJyT7rqAG7S-8wPYjTp5PZXxNiO2GK6E3nYYU5LQht_ixerWqfPEmPiSZ4k0zIQ/s400/0119art+008.jpg" border="0" /></a> Before Alteration</div><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">This is an old book titled "Visionaries" printed in 1908. I was drawn to the look and feel of this book. It had a lovely deep red cover with gold lettering. I love to work with old books that have character. I added a 'third eye' made of polymer clay and acrylic paint. I also added an antique braided metal bracelet to the cover. The eye is glued to the hard cover. The inside cover was also altered. </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Please feel free, to leave a comment or follow my blog.....</div></div></div></div>Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11382948571490887014noreply@blogger.com3