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Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog dates back to July, 2005

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    5 weeks ago
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Bleubeard and I welcome you

Art, including the journey, background techniques, new experiments, photos, failures, and successes will be shared on this site. I have removed my e-mail address until such time as I can get it to work again. Thank you for understanding. You can always leave a note on my blog and I will visit you.

Please check out my Previous Collaborations link above to see what projects I have been involved in over the past five years. Current and ongoing projects only are shown below.

Silent Sunday will showcase photos of my home, neighborhood, or community. A picture is often worth a thousand words.

Bleubeard will guide you to each Altered Book Lesson as it appears

Bleubeard will guide you to each Altered Book Lesson as it appears

Click on any lesson you might have missed or want to review

  • The AB Class Syllabus
  • Lesson 1: Finding the right book
  • Lesson 2: Supply list and prepping pages
  • Lesson 3: Prepping cover and front pages, creating a niche
  • Lesson 4: Glue and Gesso
  • Lesson 5: Design Principles (Part 1)
  • Lesson 6: Design Principles (Part 2)
  • Lesson 7: Design Elements
  • Lesson 8: Color and paint
  • Lesson 9: Backgrounds

I'd rather have comments than awards, please!

I'd rather have comments than awards, please!

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I will create the art, critique things I feel are important, and put pen (and sometimes glue) to paper, or fingers to keys, while Bleubeard will mostly watch, supervise, or sleep.
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Yahoo group where I hang out

  • ABC (Altered Book Club)

Music that inspires me

  • Babylon Saints: Joseph's band
  • Babylon Saints on Facebook
  • Panhead's Myspace (Joseph "Panhead" Peck)


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