Book Art

Today in class, a group's lesson was creating art using books. We were to transform the given books into art using additive and subtractive elements in order to create a scene. I felt this was quite an interesting assignment and one that you don't really see in classrooms.

In highschool, I had a teacher who wanted us to use a book to create art, but not in this way at all. She wanted us to use the book to create pages of unique 2D art. For example, you would cut and paste pictures flat into the book and then use paints and what not to edit it.


I felt this way, of actually making a 3D image from the book was much more interesting and I think it will be quite successful amongst high school students. I really enjoyed the process of creating a sculpture from them. I did struggle with one aspect of the book I choose. Because the book was older and bigger, the pages were very light and flimsy. It was harder to get images to stand up and remain standing up. But other than that, I think it was quite fun. I also enjoyed the suggestion that a future class would be using water colors to alter the books more and I think students would really enjoy this.