Explorations with Collage!: Merging Photographs, Paper, and Fiber

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Using these 42 techniques taught by renowned artist Redmond, makers can incorporate digital collage elements to enrich their mixed-media work. A digital collage technique layers together virtual images into a new piece of art, ready for mixed-media and collage makers to use as an eye-opening element. Artist and teacher Wen Redmond shows how by sharing 42 of her main techniques (and many variations) here. . Makes incorporating digital techniques nonintimidating and exciting, thanks to Wen's engaging mantra of "The only limit is your imagination!" . Step-by-step photos and instructions for each technique, plus demonstration projects . Hundreds of images of Wen's artworks show options and ideas. . The techniques can be added to mixed-media projects, fiber art, or photography. . One-of-a-kind, innovative methods; for example, creatively converting black-and-white images, making borders using sneaky merging, applying words in ways ranging from stitched to easy silkscreen, creating medium lifts, embedding papers, and experimenting with more than a dozen types of transfer methods. . Offers a realization new to many makers: combining color, text, and imagery in digital ways helps communicate feelings, memories, or an appreciation of our natural world. AUTHOR: Wen Redmond has been a mixed-media artist for over 35 years, and her work embraces digital printing, surface design, fiber art, and collage. Known as a pioneer in digital innovation, she has been featured and profiled by Fiber Art Now, Fine Art America, the Textile Study Group, TextileArtist.org, Art Quilt Quarterly, Fibre Arts Australia, the Surface Design Association, Jane Dunnewold's Creative Strength Training, and the American Folklife Center at the US Library of Congress. She lives in New Hampshire and North Carolina. www.wenredmond.com 740 colour images

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Generously shares digital imaging techniques, demystifies alternative ways to layer and blend images, and explores the expressive potential of textured or printed paper and fabric substrates. . . . encourages play and personal discovery in the creation of mixed media collages. -- Susan Brandeis, artist, educator, and author, The Intentional Thread and The Cumulative Cloth
nbsp;A must have guide to combining digital printing, fiber art, and collage techniques into your work. -- Jim Kedenburg, inkAID Products
"There are so many illustrations to spur one's creativity in this book. It is a picture book of ideas. The images are well done and varied." -- Becky B., Textile Society of America member

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Wen Redmond has been a mixed-media artist for over 35 years, and her work embraces digital printing, surface design, fiber art, and collage. Known as a pioneer in digital innovation, she has created several signature digital fiber techniques, including holographic images and textured photographs. Wen teaches workshops worldwide, and she has been featured and profiled byFiber Art Now,Fine Art America,the Textile Study Group, SAQA, Fibre Arts Australia, TextileArtist.org, Fiberart International,Art Quilt Quarterly, the Surface Design Association, Jane Dunnewold's Creative Strength Training, and the American Folklife Center at the US Library of Congress. Her art is found in museum collections; international exhibits, including Quilt National and Visions Museum of Textile Art; and private and public collections. She is also the author ofWen Redmond's Digital Fiber Art. She lives in New Hampshire and North Carolina.