 | Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages by Lynne Perrella
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $6.83 Great inspirational resource for students! This is one of my favorites -- makes everyone want to create a sketchbook so they can have one of their own.
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 | Cover To Cover: Creative Techniques For Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums by Shereen LaPlantz
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.99 If you want to buy one book to help you learn how to create handmade books, this is the one! It's got great step by step instructions and beautiful artist's books.
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 | Non-Adhesive Binding Books without Paste or Glue by Keith A. Smith
Buy new: $28.44 / Used from: $27.99 This is a no-frills kind of book -- but a fabulous resource for all kinds of great bookbindings. This one has great diagrams so you can figure out how to do different stitches. Keith Smith has a couple other bookbinding books, too.
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 | The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful by Gwen Diehn
Buy used from: $10.00 I love this book -- it's one of those that makes me want to get out my own sketchbook and get working!
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 | The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages by Gwen Diehn
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.99 Great inspiration for illustrated journals!
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 | True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals by Kathryn Bold
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $20.00 Wonderful art journals - a little on the crafty side, but inspirational--
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 | The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon by Dan Eldon
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.85 My students love this one -- Dan Eldon's work is creative, intuitive and highly interesting for teens (and anyone else).
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 | Collage Discovery Workshop by Claudine Hellmuth
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $7.09 I use this in class for painting, too -- I just randomly choose a 'how-to' and have kids try it out.
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 | The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery : Mixed-Media Techniques for Collage, Altered Books, Artist Journals, and More by Karen Michel
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $10.00 This is a great book for photo teachers! use up all those extra prints --
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 | Alphabetica: An A-Z Creativity Guide for Collage and Book Artists (Quarry Book) by Lynne Perrella
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $10.99 This is a great resource for all kinds of techniques.
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 | Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory
Buy used from: $8.05 Good storytelling along with drawings
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 | The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Volume 1) by Leonardo da Vinci
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $0.46 Da Vinci sketchbooks -- a must
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 | #5167 Altered Books 101 by Beth Cote
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $4.59 one of the basic altered book instruction books!
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 | Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.14 Another student-popular book, more a journal than great art, but fun to look at
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 | Je Suis Le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso by Mark Pollard
Buy new: $28.50 / Used from: $17.98 The master of sketchbooks -- he made over 175 in his lifetime! This book is amazing -- I like the way he shows how some of Picasso's masterpieces developed through his sketchbooks
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 | A Cezanne Sketchbook: Figures, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes (Dover Books on Fine Art) by Paul Cezanne
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $4.48 All the old masters
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 | Altered 104: Everything! (Design Originals) by Beth Cote
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $3.94 Beth Cote does some wonderful step by steps -- there are a number of her books and videos available.
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 | How to Make a Journal of Your Life by Dan Price
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.00 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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 | Seven Sketchbooks of Vincent Van Gogh by Johannes Van Der Wolk
Buy used from: $18.36 Great book -- wonderful images of sketchbook pages and the original sketchbooks that Van Gogh used -- really brings it to life.
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 | Altered Books Workshop: 18 Creative Techniques for Self-Expression by Bev Brazelton
Buy used from: $4.58 Good book with specific instructions -- I use this as a classroom resource!
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 | #5211 Altered Books 102 by Beth Cote
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.00 Another great altered book for your classroom resources.
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 | Altered Books 103: Little Books, Decos, CDs & More! (#5215) (Design Originals) by Art's Angels
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.50 another fun Beth Cote book.
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| From the sketchbooks of the great artists by Claude Marks
Buy used from: $0.17 Various artists -- really interesting text sometimes, but some of it is just background history of the artist, not as much on the sketchbooks themselves
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 | Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles: A Muppet Sketchbook by Alison Inches
Buy used from: $7.65 Have a little fun here - sketchbooks can be silly, too
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| Audrey Flack: Sketchbook, 1985-1989 by Audrey Flack
Buy used from: $23.00 Don't forget the women!
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 | Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt
Buy used from: $47.00 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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 | Human Figure by Albrecht Durer
Buy used from: $10.32 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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| Paul Cezanne, Two Sketchbooks: The Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Paul Cezanne
Buy used from: $4.95 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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| Sketches, Drawings, Doodles and Plans (An Abrams facsimile reproduction sketchbook) by Lucas Samaras
Buy used from: $5.00 Awesome book -- awesome binding -- done in gold with a cool slipcase. Sketches without much commentary, but reproduced beautifully
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| Pablo Picasso on the Path to Sculpture; The Paris and Dinard Sketchbooks of 1928 from the Marina Picasso collection by Werner Spies
Buy used from: $14.75 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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 | The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige
Buy used from: $47.99 Don't have this one yet -- but it's on my wish list!
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