Handmade Copic Journals

I love books. Always have. Then in 2006, I took a workshop at Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Island ME with the wonderfully inspiring Paulus Berensohn and learned to create my own journals!

Each journal is created with covers made with paste paper. wrapped around a stiff board such as Davies Board.

 

Within the book are folded papers with shorter covers. These are called signature pages. 

Each section of signature pages are sewn between the covers.

They Lay flat when opened.

I monoprint or paint the white pages!

Love those Edges!

Playing catch up!

Wow. Playing catch up!
I was accepted into Art Quilts XXIV AZ, Art Quilt Elements, PA, Studio Montclair NJ, Quilts=Art=Quilts, NY, & Form not Function!
and
Delighted to have all 3 of my entries accepted in Handcrafted, Rocky Mount NC! A Thousand Wishes, Intertwined, & Mind Wanderings!

Winter Woods Diptych sold! 6x6 image printed on painted interfacing, sewn and accented with encaustic wax

3 6x6 works sold! Let the Stones be Unbroken, The Texture of Experience, and Remembrance. Thank you!

Images made with SketchGuru app

black and white pencil mode 

printed on paper collage

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 

Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 

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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

Process of Forest Calls, a mixed media presentation

photo of side of work, with background erased

overlaid with tree image

overlaid in Photoshop

another photoshop blend 

heightened contrast and saturation

printed on molding paste

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 

Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 

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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

Come see me! This August in California, New Hampshire and Massachusetts

Honored to be in in two concurrent exhibits in CA! Fiber Arts show at the Sebastopol Art Center and Healdsburg Center for the Arts!

Breaking the Surface-Sat/Sun 12-4 Wen Redmond will be at the Ayer Lofts Gallery showing her Digital Fabric Art. Come by and learn about this amazing work. Showing till Aug. 25th.

My work, the Enchantment of the Forest, hanging at the new Art Craft and Design at the League of New Hampshire’s old Sunapee fair.

Printing Ideas

What do you do when a print doesn't turn out? Overprint! This was printed on the reverse side of another print on interfacing. The color shows through from the back. 

Printing on different papers lends an unusual texture to the finished print. Using the same photograph! This is printed on papyrus with a digital ground mixture of InkAid's clear and pearl. Printed with a Epson Printer 2400 

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 
Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 
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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

Sneaky Layering

Using a simple torn image from a magazine, create an unusual complex image

I like to tear out around the image, this of a leaf. Copy it on a copier machine or scanner

using several copies, play around with positioning. copy again or simply use your camera to digitize it

layering, with my computer, in PS but you could use app's too. It's layered with another photo of painted fabric 

plugged that photo into app called grungetastic

here's another grungetastic rendition 

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 
Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 
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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

Prints and Ideas!

Taking A Break- print on textured molding paste medium and mounted on handmade paper. Printed with Epson WF 410 printer

Leaves Under Ice- print on textured molding paste medium and mounted on handmade paper. Printed with Epson WF 410 printer.
Technique available as a DVD- https://www.interweave.com/store/digital-imagery-in-fiber-art-download-in-hd 

Taking the Year Off- watercolor paper with black gesso print off, printed and mounted on handmade paper. Printed with Epson WF 410 printer. 

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 
Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 
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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

CFAL= Contemporary Fiber Artists of Louisiana = Fun+ Excitement!

I'm back from a brief visit with the Contemporary Fiber Artists of Louisiana.
I taught my Digital Explorations Workshop and we had a blast!
The group was tuned in and ready to experiment! My kind of crowd.
I think everyone came out of the  workshop with a completed sample accordion book.
Take a look!
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My host took me around on my last day. We had a blast!

Thank you Donna!

Layering Images with Painted Fabric

original photo

black and white

the black and white photo was layered with different photos of my handprinted fabric- results below


More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 
Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 
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Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/

Capturing Moments

detail

Capturing Moments is a mixed media work using a 
combination of hand dyed silk organza, string and paper.

Dying silk organza allows it to retain it's transparency and makes a great layering mechanism. Each layer combines in color and texture to present differently than simply layered alone. This is a great advantage when creating collage. 

A string grid was placed between the layers of silk organza, added paint, oil stick and specialty mediums and allowed to dry. 

Several holes were cut and black and white inkjet prints of grasses were adhered in those places, to peek through to the front. 
This was mounted on wooden stretcher bars with a white interfacing backing. The silk retains it's transparent quality so that when light strikes this work, it almost glows.

More ideas in my book- http://tinyurl.com/z7jcb2e. 
Work may be available on UpLIFTMeNTs. 
follow me on Instagram- Wen Redmond (@wenredmond) • Instagram photos and videos  

Website- http://www.wenredmond.com/