Visual Journaling in an Altered Book with Juliana Coles. Discover the fun of Altering a ‘found” book to create your own unique Visual Journal, art journal, artist book, sketchbook etc! Great for beginners as well as advanced levels!

In this online course, the altered book format serves as an introduction to the Expressive Visual journaling techniques developed by Juliana Coles in 1992. Altered States begins with an old library book, text book, record album set, or any other pre-existing book form that can be altered to become your visual journal. In this creative altered state you will tape, glue, sew, cut, paint, learn how to hinge, add fold outs and create found object tab dividers. By the end of this course you will have prepared an entire book, cover to cover! This experiment, in 4 exciting lessons, will influence all your future books!

Register at any time and work at your own pace. Teaching platform is currently at www.extremejournalism.ning.com. “Altered States” is easy to follow with full color eBooks, plenty of supportive video and optional group forum questions with a place to share your work and receive valuable feedback from instructor! Course materials are available for ten years.

Lesson 1: Introduction provides materials list for gathering supplies (most of which you probably have around the house!) and how to choose a book for your project.

Lesson 2: Book preparation such as removing signatures and various techniques for adding new pages, fold outs and secret envelopes as well as setting up chapters or sections using found object tabs (I LOVE tabs in my books!)

Lessons 3 & 4: The final lessons guide you through introductory self-dialogue tools that combine imagery with narrative and hand lettering. You will learn many mixed media techniques to alter not only your books, but your lives! Yes! Expressive Visual Journaling is that powerful! No prior art, sketching, writing or altering experience necessary.

Registration:

Registration for “Altered States; Alter This” is open and ongoing. You may register at any time and work at your own pace. If you need help navigating the extremejournalism.ning site I am happy to walk you through it. I am here to make your altered book/visual journaling experience work for you.

After you make payment you will receive your invite from extremejournalism.ning, the workshop homepage (these are not immediate, I send them out manually from my computer so give me a day or 2). You will need to sign up or sign in. The email address associated with your registration payment is the email address I use for your membership so this is where you will receive your evite to the workshop site. If you need me to send your evite to a different email address, inform me at meandpete08@gmail.com. Always use your same membership email address when signing in. INVITATIONS ARE ALL DONE MANUALLY, so please be patient and give me a day or two. If you do not receive your evite, check your spam and trash folders before messaging me! meandpete08@gmail.com

Once I receive payment and send out evites, there are no refunds.

Message me with any questions or concerns meandpete08@gmail.com