July 23 - 26, 2025 10 - 4 pm CST
Bridgeport Art Center, Jeffrey Hirst Studio, Chicago, IL
*price includes some materials not listed.
$500 deposit holds you spot and the balance is due June 23.
Please pay for the class in the following ways:
Pay either with Zelle or Venmo. If you want to pay with Venmo or Zelle, please contact Jeff at jeff@jeffreyhirst.com
Send a check to Jeff Hirst at: 1200 W 35th Street 3A3120, Chicago, IL 60609
Making Alternative Digital Prints is sponsored by Awagami Factory and inkAID
Patti Russotti, Happiest of Buds Have Hope, transfer on silk
Making Alternative Digital Prints: Transfer Film and inkAID Receptive Coatings to a Variety of Surfaces
This unique class is for artists/imagemakers who want to expand their repertoire and create one-of-a kind prints onto a variety of surfaces. A Hybrid Class for Artists who want to play and experiment with substrates utilizing photos, graphics, marks, illustrations, mark making.
inkAID Transfer Film works well with encaustic. You can transfer an image and then add wax or add an image to a waxed surface. So many possibilities!
inkAID Inkjet Receptive Coatings allow you to coat and print an almost infinite variety of materials to create fine art and digital mixed media inkjet prints.
Patti Russotti, from the Series - Puhpowee, alchemical beings = magic
The zoom classes:
o Overview of creative possibilities and integration of transfers in artistic practice. Examples of what and how others have integrated transfers into their work
· Discuss
o Theoretical discussions on the digital-to-analog process and vice versa
o Emphasis on the importance of play, experimentation, and the concept of Wabi-Sabi
o Insights into optimal digital file preparation and pigment printing Make your own transfers or send out?
o Techniques for using transfers as complete images or as components within existing works
o Why use inkAID inkjet receptive coatings and what they do
o Methods for making multiple transfers to a single surface
o Explore finishing options
Workshop Agenda:
· Demos
o Tips/tricks and a few hacks for image transfers to a variety of substrates
o How to work with and prep unique surfaces
o Make multiple transfers to one surface
o Receptive Coatings alone and with transfer films
o Making, adding more marks to your work
o Adding color, mark making with pencils, oil pastels, gelatos, charcoal, pan pastels ….
o Work keeping piece soft or mount, attach to hard surface …
o Finish pieces - use a variety of archival sprays or encaustic wax
o Discussion of ways to display work
Patti Russotti, “invisible matters” exhibition installation
Day one
Create transfers on various substrates
Trouble shoot results
evaluate image types for different surfaces
How to adjust/optimize the file for a more appropriate film transfer
Day two
Produce new film transfers
Select images to print on Awagami papers
Make kozo prints
Day three
and,
Coat surfaces with inkjet receptive coatings and print
incorporate film transfers into new prints
Discuss aesthetic and technical outcomes
Day Four
Q and A
Adding wax
Explore additional mark making
More finish options/techniques
Class Requirements and Supply List:
What I will provide at the in-person workshop:
· 3 of your images printed to inkAID Transfer Film
· Transfierez – mixed and ready to use
· Brushes and wedges, rollers for applying the solution
· inkAiID Pre-Coats
· finishing options
o wax – hot or cold
o archival sprays
Patti Russotti, A Gathering of Beings, film transfer on washi
Supply list for workshop
· Digital files to be printed on inkAID Transfer Film and to substrates coated with receptive coatings during the workshop
· Portable device to store your images
· Variety of substrates
o Paper, all kinds – NOTE -very rough/textured papers may pose some issues, but provide interesting results
o Book pages, wall paper, vintage magazines …
o Fabric
o Glass (requires some prep work before using)
o Metal (requires some prep work before using) wood, metal foils
o Wood,
o Metal foils
o …
· Your favorite mark making tools and supplies, colored pencils, pastels, charcoal pencils or sticks, oil sticks …
· Artist tape (tape that is not too sticky)
· Scissors
· Apron
· disposable gloves
· Your special tools that you may use for each project
The following links will show you brief tutorials on what the materials and process are as well as the costs of the inkAID Transfer Film and Transfierez and Receptive Coatings
https://inkaid1.com/collections/inkaid-coatings
inkAID inkjet printed images can be combined with other mediums such as encaustic wax, acrylic and oil paint, or other grounds or coatings.
Patti Russotti in her studio.
About Patti Russotti
Artist, Explorer, Maker and Educator, Patricia Russotti’s current work is focused on entropy, negentropy, nature, and the small things she stumbles upon within the existing world. Russotti is passionate about the examinations of nature, and the alchemical magic that occurs within natural phenomena and the creative process.
Patti’s work has been consistently showcased through solo, group, and juried exhibitions as well as being held in international private and corporate collections. Her practice reflects a breadth and depth of experience and skill in image-making (including analog, digital, alternative, and historic processes), workflow, as well as digital output to a variety of substrates, such as fabric and washi.
Russotti has been training and presenting on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom since the first versions of the applications and employs these tools in the creation of her work
Currently, she is creating and offering workshops online and in person to provide emerging and established artists with acquiring digital tools to expand their art practice. Russotti believes in creating a continuum of working digital to analog to digital to analog … and the creative impact that has on one’s practice.
Her evolving methodology is continually featured at national and international imaging and education conferences and has been a regular presenter since the 1980s.
She is the co-author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook, A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve © 2010, published by Elsevier Inc, Focal Press.
Patti holds M.S. and Ed.S. Degrees from Indiana University, and spent four decades as a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology – most recently in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.
Patti Russotti, from the Series - Puhpowee, alchemical beings = magic
Patti Russotti Making Alternative Digital Prints
Payments, cancellations, transfers, and refunds:
Registration for this particular class requires a $500 deposit to reserve your space. With the full balance to be processed 21 days prior to the first day of the workshop.
If YOU have to cancel: Refunds are not available unless we can rebook your place. Please note that the closer we get to the event, the less likely we will be able to find someone to replace you.
If YOU cancel, but we can refill your spot: You will be refunded everything you have paid minus a $100 administrative fee.
If WE have to cancel: We will refund everything you have paid.
How do I know if this painting workshop is going to run?
Jeff will contact registered participants 30 days prior to the start of class to confirm. We caution against making non-refundable travel arrangements until you receive our confirmation email.
If you have any questions regarding any workshop, call 612-414-3030 or email Jeff at jeff@jeffreyhirst.com.
Patti Russotti, A Gathering of Beings, film transfer on silk with stitches