Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints, Mark-Making, Mixed Media!

Patti Russotti

October 29- November 2

Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints, Mark-Making, Mixed Media

 ‘A workflow that moves back and forth between analog and digital, with each process opening new possibilities of creative expression.

Please join me to play, create, work and expand your creative boundaries!

I believe in analog to digital to analog and round and round – a workflow that can satisfy both the analog and digital worlds.

Expanding the Frame:

• Make Alternative Digital Prints with inkAID Transfer Film, Transfierez
• inkAID Receptive Coatings on a Variety of Surfaces making any substrate (that will safely fit thru your printer) inkjet ready
• Awagami inkjet ready papers – direct print and add transfers, more receptive coatings, Marks, coloring, wax

Would you like to add new options to your repertoire and explore new ways of working and thinking about images on a page? This unique, hands-on workshop is designed for artists and imagemakers eager to expand their creative repertoire and explore alternative printmaking techniques. We’ll create one-of-a-kind prints on diverse substrates such as paper, textiles, glass, metal, wood, and more.

Through a playful, exploratory process, you’ll work with digital images, hand-drawn marks, illustrations, mono-printing, and hand coloring. Patti will demonstrate techniques for layering, transferring, and combining images — both new and existing — onto various surfaces.

What You’ll Learn

• How to make image transfers using inkAID Transfer Film and compare 2 different inkAID Transfierez solutions
• How to coat and print (on a pigment printer) to a variety of surfaces with inkAID Receptive Coatings
• Creative techniques to combine digital imagery with analog processes like mono-printing, trace mono-prints etc..
• Mono-prints, trace mono – prints
• Mark making with inks, R&F drawing sticks, colored pencils,, charcoal, oil pastels etc …
• How to incorporate transfers into encaustic work (wax layers)
• Methods for building complex, layered compositions
• Compare film transfers to prints made on Inkjet ready Awagami papers and see how beautifully they work with wax and how you can add transfers
• Finishing techniques for a professional presentation

Bonus: Pre-Workshop ZOOM Class

Before the in-person workshop, you’ll participate in a Zoom session that covers:

• Preparing your images for film transfers
• Make your own or send to a lab?
• Combining drawings, textures, and digital photos
• Planning mixed-media compositions
• Inspiring examples from other artists
• Digital-to-analog process insights
• The art of play, experimentation, and embracing Wabi-Sabi, imperfection, experimentation, and the unexpected
• Making your own film transfers vs. using a service
• Using transfers as stand-alone images or as components within larger works

Is This Workshop for You?

• We will be the first to experience a new Transfierez solution from inkAID!
• Previous experience is not required
• If you are already working with some of these techniques, this is a great way to expand and enrich your practice in beautiful and inspiring Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Would you like to think differently about how you construct your images?
• Want to learn how to transfer photos onto wood, glass, fabric, metal, etc..?
• Curious about bridging analog and digital art practices?
• Interested in layering digital imagery with traditional printmaking, collage, wax or mixed media?
• We will be the first to experience a new Transfierez solution from inkAI

If yes, you’ll love this workshop!

Included in Your Workshop Fee

• 5 days of instruction
• Use of a fully equipped printmaking studio
• Daily, you make it coffee, tea, and agua fresca

• Use of:
  • Pigment inkjet printers
  • Printing presses – can be used for monoprints as well as for transferring images to a substrate.
  • Akua inks for mono-printing and trace monoprints
  • Awagami Inkjet-ready sample packs for printing
  • R&F drawing sticks and
  • Additional supplies and substrates (discussed in the Zoom class)

Your art needs play.
Play, experiment, feel some joy.
Discover the happy accidents that you never knew were possible!

View Patti’s work and learn more about her here: Patti Russutti Seeds, Patti Russotti.com

Workshop Itinerary

• Thursday morning begins with students arriving at the studio between 9:30-10 AM.
• Daily instruction is 10 AM to 4 PM, with the studio open to students between 9:30 AM and 7 PM. The exception is Monday, when the workshop ends at 4 PM.
• Bring a lunch every day except Saturday when we go out Dutch for a late lunch
• Possible field trip to explore making new images ….