Book sculpture

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Sculptures made of books are controversial, but so fancy!

I have an Ocean Racing & Offshore Yachts book that someone gave me and had an idea to recreate a similar book sculpture I created a few years ago. I hand colored that other book sculpture with watercolors and later wished I had let it remain the natural whites of the pages. I created this piece with sculptures cut and folded from the pages in this book. Wow! It really is fun when I get going and good use for old books and old plastic drinking straws so they don't end up in the ocean! I am…

Do you remember the Edinburgh book sculptor? We reported on this mysterious artist last year, when she began leaving intricate book sculptures in literary spots around Edinburgh. Over a year later, we still know virtually nothing about the artist, except that she is a "she" and that she loves books. After hiding ten sculptures around Scotland's capitol city, the artist disappeared again, protecting her anonymous status.

Many book paper crafts can be done with old book pages. The possibilities are nearly endless, from the paper flower, and chandeliers to towel papers. This bundle of ideas is perfect for all our book lovers out there. It's fascinating to us how the pages of a book can be utilized to produce so many different things. The ideas below will undoubtedly inspire you to make some creative patterns that may be used in various locations across your home.

If you haven’t seen Nino Orlandi’s carved wooden book sculptures, do yourself a favor and take a moment to appreciate the amazing craftsmanship that goes into these. The level of detail…

the butterfly farmer: in search of the rare blue butterfly my final altered book

Book sculpture to show the emotions of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Talk about making a book come to life.