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nadia-raggles.bsky.social
all of the altered book pages we worked on for our mixed media queer vn jam entry, longings and lucubrations, in one place!

check out the vn, check out the other entries!

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September 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
nadiaguajardo.bsky.social
Altered book 📚📕

#alteredbook
September 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM
ihannas.bsky.social
New glue book video out just now! Let me know if you like (or not) the slow pace of this one that includes a bit of ASMR. youtu.be/SDYRKKAYs78?...

#gluebooking #collage #youtuber #alteredbook #cutandpaste
Glue book with me in an ALTERED BOOK | Citrus Cat Lady #gluebooking #alteredbook
YouTube video by iHanna
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September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
ihannas.bsky.social
Who else is a fan of using thrifted a text book as your art journal / notebook? Altering a book is not hard, and it even helps your creativity along because you NEVER have to face the blank page again. Win win! 💕🎨💥
www.ihanna.nu/blog/2024/12...

#mondayblogs #blogging #artjournaling #alteredbook
I am huge fan of using Altered Books - iHannas Blog
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. — William Hutchinson Murray My go to "notebook" for art journaling will always be an altered book. I me...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
ihannas.bsky.social
Here, have a pink flower. Detail from current altered book Art Journal on my desk today.

#artjournaling #mixedmedia #alteredbook #artistlife #pinksky
Acrylics on text book page with flower collage element on as focal point. altered book art journal by me, iHanna.
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Hello 👋 I fell into a magical portal and the fairies said "no social media for you, not until you finish some paintings". I painted the hallway and the 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️ were so irate they threw books at me. Quite a lot of books. So I ordered a large bookcase. I finally relented ... #art #artjournal #alteredbook
An art journal conjured from an old children's book. The children have long since grown ... into crones who paint in books. The artist's hand is holding up this book like a precious artefact from the tomb ... revealing a mystical blue book cover with collaged elements that surely mean something? A real feather, white crow, eclipse illustration, music sheet, dictionary text for "bewilder, bewilderment, bewitch, bewray", a LOT of phthalo blue, and the words "Life Opened". There are signs that the artist collects treasure like a crow. Or crone. Work in progress, much like life.
June 25, 2026 at 12:04 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
How to spell cacophony.
#artlesson
😅
Why is spelling so hard when lettering???
Finishing old art journals because I yearn for a sense of completion.
One day I hope someone will look at this and think - "how fascinating", and not "that's not how you spell cacophony".
#artjournal
#collage
#alteredbook
Altered book art journal fix - spelling corrections! Cacophony. Written with a cheap lwttering stencil.
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
Recent arty play.

One of the many reasons I love creating art journals from old books is the magicks of using books as an oracle of wisdom words.

"The magic is assembled here
A deep wisdom about life
A work of art
And
Many hours of enchantment"

#ArtYear #artjournal #alteredbook #artwitchery
Art journal pages in altered book. Left page is a collaged night landscape with a hazy full moon and a magenta and orange mountain ... work in progress. Right page is a pale blue green with found words wisdom. The magic is assembled here A deep wisdom about life A work of art And Many hours of enchantment
February 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Art miracle - I completed some art today - art journal page #museme

Magic words ...

"Fate and Magic
The Beautiful and The Ugly
The Teacher and the Fairy"

St Valentine snuck in a rose. 🎶 I can give myself flowers 🌹 🎶

#artjournal #alteredbook #artyear #art #faces #poetry #bskyart
Holding up my art journal altered book. First page held together with red ribbon, pages painted black. Painting of female side profile looking down across to opposite page at a rose. Out of view is my contents page for Moonshine (art witch course with Effy Wild) of the monthly themes for the year. I have been using this journal for several years. I have a slowcook approach to art and life!
February 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
#Februarty day 10 Ring.
Rings of paint?
#artjournal #alteredbook
Art journal spread abstract blue shapes and drips against a pale sky background. Focal point of copper rings.
February 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Some of my favourite art is not very grand - it is of the moment, tucked away in #artjournals - I am not quite sure what is raw or incomplete, but this doesn't matter in a journal.
Mixed media - acrylic paint and oil pastels. #AlteredBook art journal from a children's board book.
#ArtYear #FebruArty
mixed media art journal oil pastel drawing of a female figure with long red hair, wearing a green gown, looking down with eyes closed and arms outstretched - drawing in energy from earth and sky.
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
I have been in a creative funk for what feels like an eternity so I made up a new challenge for myself #MuseMe

It's simple - just make something! That's it. Any media. Any state of incomplete chaos. Creating 💫, not judging 🤔.

Sunday's musing ... play in progress in an #alteredbook #artjournal
Work in progress on an altered book art journal spread. Saved words "All Story". Landscape emerging of trees in the full moon, with a hooded figure.
February 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Day 14 #JanuArty prompt is Plant. #Alteredbook #artjournal with some found word #poetry - one of my favourite ways to find art magicks. Poem:

You live to tell your own fortune
Smoke drifted into her old room
The story of long before
But young no more

#charmedlife
Art journal page in an altered book of leaves painted negatively over an intuitive background with saved words as poetry. Real plant in the background behind art journal.
January 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Day 10 Blue #Januarty

Blue is one of my favourite colours. I use it a lot in #painting because while my most favourite colour is purple, it can be a bit heady in large doses, but blue - can never have too much blue. Choosing a blue painting is not easy because I have so many of them.
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Painting of a female face side profile, eyes closed, in an altered book journal with saved words "in June the cold winter spirit sang in my ear". Winter starts in June in Australia.
January 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
Day 4 Shadow
#Januarty
Art journal collage spread. I skipped yesterday as I got stuck finding something 'shadow'. It would have been quicker to create something new but my art room is stubbornly stuck mid chaos of tidying. I should do some shadow work on that.
#artjournal #collage #alteredbook
Art journal spread in altered book, with collage of a female silhouette painted and cut out from a fashion magazine with found words text "the reverse truth appeared in the margins" on left side, and patchwork of brightly coloured squares on right page with text "In Shadow" and "NOT".
January 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
Shapes. Day 3 #Januarty
An art journal page in an altered book, evidently from 2013. Another intuitive painting where I painted from dreamy subconscious state of mysteries. What does it mean? Shapes have their own language without words.
#art #artjournal #alteredbook
Altered book art journal page with an abstracted figure next to a river swirling with fish, next to a sandy walking path, with a large bird shape looking over the scene.
January 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
artmystics.bsky.social
Awakening to joy. Part of an art journal spread in an #alteredbook.

I've been gradually and mindfully (sometimes distractedly 🙄) tidying, cleaning and organising my art space over the past few days.

Maybe in 2025 it can be an art studio with an office space instead of an office with art space?! 😃
Art journal page, acrylic and ink, female figure lying in bed reaching up to a hummingbird in the dark.
December 31, 2024 at 4:32 AM
artmystics.bsky.social
Day 24 sharing my art for #artadventcalendar... Merry Xmas Eve. Taking a brief break from family festivities to post photos of an #alteredbook #artjournal with canvas cover and fancy bookbinding.
Photo of art journal book cover with forrst, old tree, moon, bird and text "Moonshine" Photo of bookbinding for a repurchased children's book as art journal.
December 24, 2024 at 7:17 AM
blinkpopshift.com
Curious what y'all think of this art book / audiobook / video experiment

#videoart #art #bookart #audiobook #alteredbook #trashart

youtu.be/yh3MY8-AN2E
Making a book from trash FOR ART
YouTube video by BlinkPopShift
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November 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM
junkjournalandco.bsky.social
In fase di completamento 🫶🏼
#junkjournal #junkjournalgothic #alteredbook
December 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM
suehagley.bsky.social
pixelfed.social/p/SkyGreen/7...

@astrokatie.com Thank you for making "The Universe" podcast. Endlessly fascinating! Each time I listen I learn something new.
Draws_Shoots_And_Leaves (@SkyGreen@pixelfed.social)
#collage #collageart #alteredbook I've been listening to an amazing podcast called #theuniverse with #johngreen and #katiemack and John came out with this during episode two and it really struck me. '...
pixelfed.social
February 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
mizkatieart.bsky.social
Altered book - Girl & Her Bunny

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#blueskyart #art #alteredbook #bunnies #acrylic #painting #portraitpainting #naiveart #originalart #humanartist #traditionalart
Girl & Her Bunny Altered Book
made from a children's board book
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May 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM