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Patti Russotti - Making Alternative Digital Prints: Transfer Film and inkAID Receptive Coatings on a Variety of Surfaces




Zoom session: June 25 4 - 6 pm CST

In-Person: July 23 - 26, 2025 10 - 4 pm CST


Bridgeport Art Center, Jeffrey Hirst Studio, Chicago, IL


$500 deposit holds you spot and the balance is due June 23.

The total class cost is $1095 *price includes some materials not listed.

Please pay for the class in the following ways:

  • Pay either with Zelle or Venmo.

  • To pay with Zelle use: jeff@jeffreyhirst.com or 612-414-3030

  • To pay with Venmo use: Jeffrey Hirst @Jeff-Hirst-1

  • 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, Yellow Corsage, Transfer

This course is a special Hybrid class that includes one Zoom session and a 4-day in-person class.

Zoom session to cover materials and some class content.

Zoom Session: June 25 4 - 6 pm CST

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 class for Artists who want to play and experiment with substrates (paper, textiles, glass, metal, wood…) 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, One -Puff, transfer


The zoom classes:

o   Overview of creative possibilities integrating transfers within an artistic practice. Examples of what and how others have integrated transfers into their work

·         Discuss

o   The strength of digital-to-analog process and vice versa

o   Emphasis on the importance of play, experimentation, and the concept of Wabi-Sabi

o   Make your own transfers or send out?

o   Use transfers as complete images or as a component within existing work

o   Why use inkAID inkjet receptive coatings and what they do

o   Methods for making multiple transfers to a single surface

o   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   inkAID Receptive Coatings -coat, dry, print

o   Making, adding more marks to your work  

o   Adding color, mark making with pencils, oil pastels, gelatos, charcoal, pan pastels ….

o   Work soft (this allows for sticking, adding layers, transparency)… 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, textures…

  • How to adjust/optimize the file to make a more appropriate film transfer

 

Day two

Trouble Shoot and Q/A

  • Make new film transfers

  • Select images to print on Awagami papers

  • Make Kozo prints

  •  Add film transfer to Kozo Prints

Day three

Trouble Shoot and Q/A

  • Coat surfaces with inkjet receptive coatings and print (substrates that are not inkjet ready, like papers, pages from books, fabric…)

  • Incorporate film transfers into Kozo prints

  • Add marks, stitches, color fields with pencils, oil pastels, graphite, charcoal…

  • Discuss aesthetic and technical outcomes

 

Day Four

Q and A

  • Adding wax - working with encaustic medium and paint

  • Demos on a variety of ways to integrate transfers, kozo prints with wax

  • Wax as a finish to layered pieces or a single Kozo print

  • 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

  • (if you have a pigment printer, it would be great if you make your own films)

·      Transfierez – mixed and ready to use

·      Brushes and wedges, rollers for applying the solution

·      inkAiID Pre-Coats

·      finishing options

o   wax medium

o   archival sprays

 

Patti Russotti, Butting Heads, pigment print on Awagami Kozo paper

Supply list for workshop

·      Digital files to be printed on inkAID Transfer Film and to substrates coated with receptive coatings during the workshop

  • To substrates coated with receptive coatings during the workshop

·      Portable device to store your images (ssd, thumb drive, etc…)

·      Variety of substrates - this will be discussed during zoom class

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, graphite, gelatos …

·      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.

InkAID videos

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 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.

Patti Russotti, Marination, Transfer

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, Untitled 66, Transfer

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