The Book of Sea

Recently I had to make an altered book project for my art class, with a National Geografic book.

As we had to base it on something meaningful to us, I got inspired from a part of my childhood spent in New Caledonia and decided to make my altered book on the lagoons of the little island of New Caledonia.

For this book I started by making the cover and the back of the book. I glued pieces of fabrics to make the background. To decorate the front and back of my book I glued shells, rocks, little objects, a bit of sand and a few aquatic animals of New Caledonia. To make the tittle I simply cut out the letters from a piece of fabric and glued them on to my book's cover.

Once I finished the cover and the back of my book I went on to working on the inside of my book. I glued every pages of the book together to make it hold well. To give the book more volume I curved some pieces of pages and glued them back together to the other pages with a hot glue gun.

With tempera I painted the inside of my book in blue and yellow. I made fishes and aquatic life out of clay, while some of my animals were cut out of paper and coloured in pencil crayon.

I also added sea shells and little rocks inside my book as well as on top, along with other aquatic creatures which I glued at the top of my book.

I added more detail to my lagoon by gluing corals, rocks and little cliffs which I drew on paper and coloured in pencil crayon. On the left side of my lagoon I painted a little cliff and some corals with acrylic paint.

Here are some other fishes I made for my book:

If you wish to have tips on how to draw fishes you can watch my tutorial video on how to easily draw fishes, shown right below, which I also refered to in my last article.

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