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Explorations with Collage!: Merging Photographs, Paper, and Fiber
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 combining color, text, and imagery in digital ways helps communicate feelings, memories, or an appreciation of our natural world.
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 combining color, text, and imagery in digital ways helps communicate feelings, memories, or an appreciation of our natural world.
208 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2024
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August 7, 2026
Picked this up on a whim at my library's book sale because I've been workshopping a few junk journals/scrapbooking.
This book is definitely geared more towards the experienced artist, so I was definitely out of my league! That said, I still really enjoyed seeing the processes / examples and might attempt some of the more simple techniques :)
This book is definitely geared more towards the experienced artist, so I was definitely out of my league! That said, I still really enjoyed seeing the processes / examples and might attempt some of the more simple techniques :)
May 30, 2026
**Explorations with Collage! Merging Photographs, Paper, and Fiber** by Wen Redmond.
© 2024, Wen Redmond. Published by Schiffer Craft, PA.
Started: 2026-05-27
Ended: 2026-05-29
I read very carefully for the first half and got so many ideas for things to do with collage.
Going back & forth from analog to digital so many times it’s quite revelatory. I have been photographing and scanning my art for ages, it seems, but I’ve only begun to print some out & use them in collage, especially in art journals.
Doing a full-up collage that contains many layers can then, after having been built up analog, converted to digital, more layers created digitally, then printed to receive the layers of another layer. It’s just amazing,.to me, that this stuff could work.
And why not?
One thing I like (among many) is how much the author encourages the reader to just play, experiment, and so on.
In the second half of the book, she starts to discuss using digital grounds, such as [[inkAID]], that is painted onto the substrates so it can run through an inkjet printer and accept ink.
Also doing media lifts — using fluid acrylic medium to pull up work left on a piece of plastic with a sheet of artist tissue (wet strength) is so beyond my work on a gel plate by miles & miles.
The one thing this book lacks, since it’s only 3 1/2 rating, is a concrete set of instructions. It is not a book of tutorials. It is the author showing some of her experiments with out really discussing enough details. Accompanying pictures are vague as well. Too many just don't show enough detail. I didn't know what I was looking at or what I was supposed to be looking for. Many of the images are too dark to make out the details.
However, if you want to get some inspiration for a multitude of techniques, this is a good book for that.
— Tamara Temple, May 27th, 2026
St. Paul
© 2024, Wen Redmond. Published by Schiffer Craft, PA.
Started: 2026-05-27
Ended: 2026-05-29
I read very carefully for the first half and got so many ideas for things to do with collage.
Going back & forth from analog to digital so many times it’s quite revelatory. I have been photographing and scanning my art for ages, it seems, but I’ve only begun to print some out & use them in collage, especially in art journals.
Doing a full-up collage that contains many layers can then, after having been built up analog, converted to digital, more layers created digitally, then printed to receive the layers of another layer. It’s just amazing,.to me, that this stuff could work.
And why not?
One thing I like (among many) is how much the author encourages the reader to just play, experiment, and so on.
In the second half of the book, she starts to discuss using digital grounds, such as [[inkAID]], that is painted onto the substrates so it can run through an inkjet printer and accept ink.
Also doing media lifts — using fluid acrylic medium to pull up work left on a piece of plastic with a sheet of artist tissue (wet strength) is so beyond my work on a gel plate by miles & miles.
The one thing this book lacks, since it’s only 3 1/2 rating, is a concrete set of instructions. It is not a book of tutorials. It is the author showing some of her experiments with out really discussing enough details. Accompanying pictures are vague as well. Too many just don't show enough detail. I didn't know what I was looking at or what I was supposed to be looking for. Many of the images are too dark to make out the details.
However, if you want to get some inspiration for a multitude of techniques, this is a good book for that.
— Tamara Temple, May 27th, 2026
St. Paul
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