Altered Art Sketchbook covers

We used an altered art technique to cover our sketchbooks. First step was to paint the background with blobs of acrylic paint and spray with water to make it run down the page.

Next we traced a stencil over the painted surface and painted black in the negative spaces.

Everyone chose different shapes for their sketchbook.

Sketchbook Collage Covers

Every year I try to have different ways to cover our sketchbooks. This was a multi step process.
After gessoeing  our covers we glued down paper of music, books or newspaper. Then we used water soluble oil pastels for the background and added water to make it flow.  Our image was glued down next and charcoal outlined it.

Some techniques we did were outlining with charcoal, blending with our fingers the water sol oil pastel (dry),  brushing water on the pastels and covering the whole thing with a glue wash to seal the color.