Dear fellow art journal traveler, You have given me a wonderful gift in your video today. Thank you. I could relate to every stroke of your brush, the colors chosen, all the mark making, the placement of different textures, composition, and the old books. Your art pages encourage me so much! For a few moments, I felt like we were alter egos. I’ve been playing with design in abstract art for a very long time. And, I am 80 years old. Thank you very much.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome. I'm so glad you feel encouraged, Lizzieb 🌺

I really enjoyed this video. I’m an avid reader and lover of books as well as a mixed media and art journal enthusiast. I have used old books as journals. Old and even new books that don’t sell eventually get destroyed and are no longer of use to anyone. An old book given a new life is a wonderful way for it to live on and I think it’s beautiful that you honor the author at the end.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Wonderfully put, I should say 😊

I have a few old books that I use for art journals. They are just for me to play in and have fun. I glue two pages together to make them a little sturdier and I add a little gesso before painting. So much fun 😊

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea! Thanks for the tips🪄

@HandmadeJournalsbyFran2022

9 ай бұрын

@@KitchenCounterAbstract you’re very welcome. I’m enjoying your videos and I’m looking into the Degas fixatif as I find the Sennelier a bit pricey and toxic. I’ve just enrolled to the Wanderlust 2024 class and I’ll be starting my art journal with one of your ideas. Thank you for the inspiring tutorials 😊 Tata from BC, Canada 🇨🇦

a wonderfully inspiring video. Exactly what I need at the moment. Small sketchbook works with various pens. I like how uncomplicated you create your work in the sketchbook. Thank you very much for this idea. Since I have been suffering from long Covid with great exhaustion for 2.5 years, I can no longer paint large painting as often. Therefore, I am grateful for any inspiration for small works of art. Thank you very much for this great video. It's so nice to watch you paint. I really enjoyed it. Sincerely, Conny

if the pages are thin - you can glue 2 or 3 together to make it thicker before you paint :)

@KitchenCounterAbstract

8 ай бұрын

Great tip thanks 😊

What an adventure! I couldn’t wait to see where you would take the art pieces when switching back and forth. Your video is art as well.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

We laughed, we cried! Haha. Thank you for watching 🎭

Love painting in books! Another artist suggests cook books because they tend to have great quality paper.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

And some fun illustrations I’m sure 👩‍🍳

Great suggestion to recycle and not waste old books. Better to reuse and save money. Thanks for the advice 🙌🙌🙌

@KitchenCounterAbstract

3 күн бұрын

You’re welcome 📖🎨

Very inspiring. Love both the books...I have purchased several old books recently for this purpose. Love your work and also love the music!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🏵️🌺

This is so fun!!! ❤❤❤

I really enjoyed your take on altered books, and all the different aspects of finding and working with them that you include in the video! Cheers from another youtuber and art journaler/artist! 💕🇸🇪🌈🎉🪅🎨

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I will Check out your work 🎨🖌️

Oooh yay a great new channel to follow! Thank you!❤🎉

Wow, I really enjoyed watching this whole video. Beautifully done and you inspire me to get some old books and start marking/doodling. I've been thinking of doing this lately but you've inspired me even more to get off my butt and get started. What a great way to journal along the way, too. I've been wanting to get back into doing some abstract art again. I used to do black and white abstracts years ago and sold in a gallery in the bay area. Anyway, thank you and I'm glad I stumbled upon your video.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome and I’m so happy you’re inspired again 🌷🌹

Just found your channel. Love this! I have some great old books and I love painting on them. I want to do more abstract like this. Thanks for the ideas.

Loving your channel, your ideas and variety of supplies I have not seen before. So glad that your format is easy to watch and understand. Thank you sincerely!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😌

Thanks for all the effort and time you put into this video. Inspired for sure.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure 🌺

Love these❤️

Book 2 was my favorite & cool field trip 😍

So happy this showed up in my feed. I was just about to get rid of some old books. Now I’m keeping them! Love your abstracts! I’m going to turn this into a regular practice. I’m subscribing to see your art, process and stay motivated. Thank you!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. So glad you enjoy it

Your work and style speak to me. I am looking forward to more videos from your channel. Just subscribed. 😂❤

WOW I loved this and as a fellow cold basement dwelling artist, SO glad I found your channel.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

3 ай бұрын

I know right?! 🌺💕

Many thanks for sharing this video with us … love it!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

These are great! Very interesting idea, too. Thank you!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. Im glad you enjoyed 🌸

Wow this was just what i needed!!! Thanks❤

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

You’re welcome ☺️

really enjoying your vibe and your fantastic color sense. i tend to do mostly collage in altered books, with some watercolor and other stuff, but now i might try more paint and other media. thank you (i've subscribed) loved when you stamped the white lines from one book into another book...

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, I’m glad you liked. 😊

It’s been a while since I painted on book pages. You make it look fun!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

10 ай бұрын

I’d love to see what you’ve done 🎉❤

I just started doing this so I must be on trend ha! I glue a few pages of the book together though and intend to us some of the paintings in my junk journals for tags etc. great video. Thank you. I subscribed 🌹

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

I’m going to try gluing two pages together in my thin books, thank you 😊

I used a old book and made it into my sketchbook for the whole year. Very fun and the paper was good. Each year when my library has a sale Ill check them out. I have a chocolate book that Im doing just abstracts inside.

I love what you’re doing 🌹

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

🌸

Just found your channel. Glad I did!

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Me too 😌

Yea that’s a great idea to have a play book…. Where you know it’s gonna get messy lol like the more messy = more fun! How freeing as a meditative therapy….. I need to start something like that up…… Thanks for sharing this idea! 👏👌

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Very meditative. It works the brain in healthy ways!

Oil pastels do well with any kind of book if it is troubling that paint seeps through. Also I have discovered it needs to be hardcover because the soft ones are just glued and any liquid dissolves the glue and the papges come apart.

Very enjoyable video ❤

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

I have abook like this too. Sometimes I glue 2 pages together to hold up better. It is a journal or diary for me,😊😊❤

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

I need to try that

Yes! I paint in a book! ❤

Hi! Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm looking at your hands, they're so much like mine! Same fingers, same back, same lines, same movements/gestures and same age. But by your face, I'm probably 15 years older than you! So, I figure, you are either older than you look, or I have incredibly young-looking hands for my age. I'd rather be in your shoes, if I had a choice ;). Anyway, good luck with your new channel! I was inspired enough to check out my next door neighbor's library and found a really thick-paged toddler's book that will be perfect for some collage and paint! Thanks.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad you’re inspired ☺️

Do any of your small abstracts turn into larger pieces?

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

I’ve tried to do that but because the scale is so wildly different - I’ve found it almost impossible to recreate a smaller piece into a bigger one.

I do this as well, drawing in old books. My grandson told me, “ naughty Granny, you are being mean to the author!”

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

That’s hilarious! I suppose that could be a little cognitive overload for a child 😄

Devaluing books, which are vehicles of expression and education, among other things, is a dangerous precedent. That may seem like an extreme statement but not if you think it through.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

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after living under an oppressive regime for half my life, nothing brasses me off more than ppl policing others, especially online. I'm sorry if you ever get the annoying comments about destroying books. the war survivor in me who lived in direct opposition to the government will buy the exact book that's gna set you off and destroy it thoroughly just to prove the pt that one, in fact, cannot ctrl what others do and should never strive to do so. if i had your channel and ppl would've come at me, I'd do it to the Harry Potter books, straight up. if you tell ppl what to do be ready to hear the "f*ck off" too.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

4 ай бұрын

Well, I could delete those comments but I choose to leave them be. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. A police regime, however, sounds rough. ❤️🌻

@SJ-dl6uc

4 ай бұрын

@@KitchenCounterAbstract you're a kind person. i appreciate that. I'm out of there now. but the feeling never goes away. have a good weekend

You are telling people to steal books from LittleFreeLibrary boxes? REALLY????

It's a shame to paint in old books.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

2 ай бұрын

I agree. Some old books I wouldn’t paint in.

Let me stop you right here (about 10 seconds in): as a writer, who has written one of those “inconsequential” items you slather with paint. Books are full of IDEAS, information and often beautiful pictures. The authors were trying to communicate something they believed was important to likeminded people, something s/he hoped/believed would transform the reader’s life in some way. Probably just as many people, if not more, think the end result of altering books is inconsequential.

@rsurbanowicz

9 ай бұрын

It is 2023... all the information in a published book can be got hold of. The paper book is only one way to get information. Then their are also old outdated books that are no longer relevant or debunked.

@KitchenCounterAbstract

9 ай бұрын

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@dorothyatchison1825

6 ай бұрын

Painting in the pages of a book gives that book a new life … how lucky to hold not only the written word but the visual too ❤️

@63artemisia63

6 ай бұрын

@@dorothyatchison1825 Not so “lucky” if the words were more enjoyable than the paint.

@63artemisia63

6 ай бұрын

@@rsurbanowicz “can be got hold of”? In 2023, we say “is available”. Actually, no matter what year it is, everything in books isn’t available because books contain much more than information. About those “irrelevant and debunked” books: Who decides what’s irrelevant? And I’d love a couple of examples of “debunked” books, other than the Bible, I mean.