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Book Poetry


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Book poetry is an art form that can be created by using any type of drawing material you may have at home, including felts, coloured pencils, pens and even watercolour, to modify one or more pages of an old book. In this project, you simply find an old book and repurpose it, trying to find the poetry hidden behind.

To the right, for instance, a page of the book "Paul and Virginia" was transformed to read "The night overtakes us in an eager desire; we soon lost sight of the Sun." Look at the splashes of red that add so much to the poetry!



Any book can be transformed into a poetry book; it does not need to be a fictional work. For instance, the book below was originally called "All about the sea". Look at the beautiful and meaningful poetry that was extracted from that educational and science-based book:
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There’s no wrong way to do this! You can circle the words, paint or draw around them, however you’d like to do it, in a way that those words stand out in the order you desire. You can turn the page into a design or draw or paint an image around the words.

Don’t have an old book? Use a page from a magazine! Or cut and paste words from a magazine to create your own poem and use any separate background for it!


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  • done Welcome
  • done Class Rules
  • done Grade 6/7s
    • done Fine Arts >
      • done Scavenger Hunt
      • skip What does an artist do?
      • done Introduction to Art
      • done Collaborative Banner
      • done Bypass your Catalogue
      • done Charcoal Still Life
      • done Pencil Portrait
      • skip Printmaking
      • done Form and 3D sculpting
      • done Exquisite Corpse
    • Drama >
      • Done - Basics of Theater
      • Done - Improv
      • Dance and Movement
      • Done: Twisted Fairy Tales
  • Grade 8s
    • Fine Arts >
      • Explorations >
        • Done - Drawing >
          • Done - Metamorphosis
        • Done - History
        • Done -0 Pride of Self
        • Done - Microscopic Art
        • Done - Animation
        • Done - Activism
        • Done - Graffiti Art
        • Done - Book Poetry
        • Done - Junk Art
    • Drama >
      • Done - Improv >
        • Done - Warm Up
        • Done - Finals 2019
      • Done - Car Plays
      • Done - Tableau
      • Done - Musical Theatre
  • Toolbox
    • Done - Drawing
    • Mixed Media
    • Animation
    • Artist Statement
  • Elements
    • Line - Doodle
    • Done - Value and Shading
    • Colour
  • Checkout
  • Special Projects
    • Bump-Out