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Bleubeard and I welcome you
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
- Lesson 10: Magazine images and frames
- Lesson 11: Pockets
- Lesson 12: Folded Pages
- Lesson 13: Windows and Doors
- Lesson 14: Zippers
- Lesson 15: Decorative Edges
- Lesson 16: Fabric
- Lesson 17: Polymer Clay
- Lesson 18: Students choice: Transfers and Pop-up
- Lesson 19: Bringing it all together
- Lesson 20: Decorating your book cover
- Epilogue: Future ABs
Three of my completed altered books
Word to art by in 2021
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