Altered Books

Trying to do something creative every day . . . so, yesterday spent the day with my childhood friend, Beverly, at her lovely studio and we worked on Altered Books.  This is something new for both of us - but we are signed up for an Orly Avineri art journal workshop in November so we are prepping our books.  For those of you not familiar with this process - you take an old, used book and paint the pages with gesso/acrylic paint, glue pages together, cut out some pages, etc. and then add your own artwork/journal writing - whatever you like.  So, this morning, I got up and did the cover of my altered book.  Some photos: