Renegades can have their coloring outside the box.
Me, I'm going to color outside the page.
Last Friday, I spotted
this "Altered Books" blogonline and just couldn't believe how cool it was: "Cut the bindings off of books found at a used book store. Find poems in the pages by the process of obliteration. Put pages in the mail and send them all around the world. Lather, rinse, repeat," says the site.
Why stop at relying on a used book store? You can sign up with
Freecycleand see if anyone is offering free books. A friend might want you to try this out on one of his or her books. You might also have books you want to use yourself (now I wish I hadn't gotten rid of that math book from college).
Or you can find text online (search for a favorite topic or something you are researching or want to learn more about or something you obsess about) and print it out or copy a page from a favorite book.
You can use a magazine or a newspaper. I went ahead and used a page from
my fiction manuscript. I encourage you to try using paints, nail polish (in a well-ventilated area), markers, anything you like ...
Junk mail could probably be improved on with a project like this and sheet music would be cool to "color outside of" as well.
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