Deconstructed Art Journal Video Download

Description

Deconstruct and Reconstruct a Custom Art Journal!

Make your own personalized art journal, including endlessly interchangeable pages, with fun and easy techniques from Rae Missigman in Deconstructed Art Journal! You’ll begin the process by taking apart a hardcover book. Then Rae demonstrates how to turn the cover into a painted, layered, and texturized abstract artwork that will serve as the cover for your journal. You’ll use a gelatin printing plate to create a stack of beautiful papers for the inside, perfect for journaling and marking up later! Finally, Rae shares her technique for creating an elastic bungee binding that allows you to add or remove pages as often as you want!

In this video you will:

• Deconstruct a hard-bound book.
• Dye ribbon for a bright, colorful closure.
• Monoprint using a gelatin plate and upcycled tools.
• Use stencils, acrylic paint, and texture paste to create an abstract painted cover.
• Learn a no-stitching-required binding technique.

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About the Artist

Rae Missigman is a self-taught mixed-media artist who loves to create, blog, and instruct. She has a fondness for both pattern and color, which has led her to create outside the lines, resulting in artwork that is both busy and polychromatic. Rae offers both online and in-person classes. She is a designer for StencilGirl Products and designs her own stamps. You can find Rae’s work in numerous art publications including Cloth Paper Scissors, as well as on her website, RaeMissigman.com.

Materials List

Surface

• Assorted papers (book paper, deli paper, music paper, mixed media paper, craft paper bags, etc.)
• Discarded hardcover book

Media

• Acrylic glazing fluid
• Assorted acrylic paint including heavy body, soft body, and fluid
• China Markers including black and white
• Dylusions ink
• Faber-Castell spackle
• Paint markers including black and white
• Permanent marker
• White gesso
• White gloss craft paint

Other Tools and Materials

• 2mm-wide elastic
• Bone folder
• Brayer
• Craft knife or utility knife
• Enamel pan or disposable pan
• Eyelet setter (Crop-o-Dile)
• Eyelets or beadcores (5mm in diameter works well)
• Heavy-duty hole punch (Rae uses Crop-o-Dile)
• LineCo book binding tape or other strong permanent tape
• Manufactured gelatin printing plate
• Mop cloth
• Paint brushes
• Palette knife
• Palette paper
• Paper trimmer
• Pencil
• Rubber gloves
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Scraper or old gift card
• Soft grit sand paper (Garnet)
• Spray bottle of water
• Stencils
• Upcycled materials including food netting, paper towel tubes, popsicle sticks, coffee stirrer, sequin waste, clothespin, paperclips, etc.
• White seam binding

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