Altered Books- Paper cutting etc

 

Amazing Altered Books by Brian Dettmers

YouTube Links- Altered Books

NZ Book Council - Going West by Maurice Yee

The Book Sculptures of Su Blackwell

YouTube Links-Pop-ups and Folded Paper

Five Awesome Pop-Up Paper Sculptures

Awesome Paper Trick

Pop Up Card Tutorial

Amazing 3D Designs

6 Amazing Pop Up Sculptures

Spiral Heart

Pop up Cards

How to Make Image Transfers

• Image Transfers - various methods - step by step http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/image.html
• Various methods of transferring images:
• Here is method in detail using gloss medium:
• Using another brand of gloss medium:
• Additional methods:
• Easy photocopy transfer tip using blender marker pen:

Resources

• http://gomakesomething.com/category/ht/ab/
• International Society of Altered Book Artists http://www.alteredbookartists.com/
• http://www.d-originals.com/ has the following books as well as others:
• Altered Books 101 by Beth Cote & Cindy Pestka
• Altered Book Special Effects! by Laurie Goodson & Betsy McLoughlin
• Altered books materials guide by Laurie Goodson, Betsy McLoughlin & Susan Pickering Rothamel
• Getting Started in Altered Style by Suzanne McNeill
• Article by Suzanne Hill - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/7131/91378
• Lisa Vollrath "how to" articles - answers to many questions. You must now register to access the articles. Lisa has many CD's with images - very affordable - see offerings from Two-Ten Studios
• Altered Book Techniques http://www.jenminnis.com/Techniques_Book.html
• Creativity Portal -Altered Books - How to Tutorials and more
• Insight Out: Reversing Vandalism - Reversing Vandalism project which would allow artists to use damaged books to create new works of arts.
• Karen's Whimsy Public Domain Images Scans by Karen Hatzigeorgiou - engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly. Seeher artwork - altered books and collage
• See IAD's page of public domain images and clip art.

Artists

• Nicholas Jones - Sculptural Altered Books
• Altered Book Artists - International Society of Altered Book Artists (ISABA)
  http://www.alteredbookartists.com/index.html
• Beth Cote http://www.alteredbook.com/index.html
  Books, CDs, videos - lots of copyright free images. See also her work on scrapbooking.com.
• Ingrid Dijkers http://www.ingriddijkers.com/main.html
• Eliece Edge - blog: http://by-my-hand.blogspot.com/
• Tom Phillips 
  http://humument.com/ | http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/art317/artists-books/humument.htm
  A Humument is a treated book by British artist Tom Phillips based on the Victorian novel 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock.
• Richard Minsky http://www.minsky.com/index.html
• Karen Michel http://www.karenmichel.com/
• Karen Hatzigeorgiou - Karen's Whimsy http://karenswhimsy.com/
• Teesha Moore http://www.teeshamoore.com/gallery.htm