twobluecrows 02-11-2006, 07:12 PM
How hard is it for you to tear the pages out of books? Does your early childhood education rear it's stern head and remind you that books are treasures? How long did you hesitate the very first time?

~M 03-10-2007, 05:05 PM
Sorry, I couldn't resist...

My first AB was a situation where the problem kind of solved itself. I had no clue what I was doing (as if I do now...), and I started gluing pages together with ModPodge, which says it's good for that (now I'm not so sure, so I use acrylic medium), and the glue layers started to thicken the book considerably. Keeping in mind that I was going to further be thickening it with all the stuff I wanted to collage in, I started to selectively glue pages together, every other one, with blank pages purposely used as section dividers. So, as I went, in order to keep those blank pages available, I would have to remove others so that my sections retained the same thickness.

I don't know if that made any sense at all, it was one of those learning-as-you-suffer-to-make-it-work type of things. But, like most learning experiences, the harder ones teach you more.

One thing it taught me was to scour book or thrift stores for inexpensive children's board books...faster results, less effort, more time to create. I also ocassionally find ones with cut outs, which REALLY makes things fun!

Pilan 04-11-2007, 11:43 AM
i had a problem. My book is still in process after 4 years. eeks

~M 04-11-2007, 04:22 PM
Some works are like that...You have to wait it out, until they "talk to you," on how to proceed. (I, too, have one that is 2/3 done, but has been for about a year, now...lol!)
If you truly want to complete it, make an Art Plan, and follow it, just like any other "to do" list.