by Johwey Redington | Monday, March 6, 2017 | Exploring Paper
Learn how to make this hanging book sculpture that you can display indoors or outdoors. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Email me your comments here.
by Johwey Redington | Thursday, March 2, 2017 | Exploring Paper
The Dickinson Book Sculpture features a staggered geometric design complemented with dainty pearl-accented flowers. It is one of my bestsellers, and now you can do it at home with this free video tutorial. For a guide to choosing the right book for this project, click...
by Johwey Redington | Tuesday, February 28, 2017 | Exploring Paper
I’ve received numerous inquiries about how to make the Yin-Yang book sculpture, and I’m excited to finally offer a free video tutorial for it. The concept behind this design is to cut the pages incrementally by 1/8″ to create the gradated look. I...
by Johwey Redington | Monday, January 16, 2017 | Exploring Paper, The Creative Process
Inspired by patterns and geometric abstraction, I did some cutout studies to explore shapes and spacial relationships – with the end goal of translating these concepts in my encaustic work. Most of the plates shown below were inspired by abstract artists whose...
by Johwey Redington | Thursday, October 23, 2014 | Exploring Paper
This uniquely creative card is sure to impress with its classic simplicity. This mini Christmas tree pop-up gift card is the perfect accompaniment to any holiday gift. The finished card size is 3½” x 3½”. Have fun making it! Project Pattern You can...
by Johwey Redington | Thursday, April 4, 2013 | Exploring Paper
In this lesson, I’m going to teach you one of the basic folds in creating a book sculpture — the triangle fold — and how this simple fold can easily be modified to create interesting designs for your book sculptures. An array of triangle folds creates a simple but...