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Instructor: Patti Russotti
Monday & Tuesday
June 6 - 7
10am - 4pm
2 sessions on campus

This workshop will bring together a variety of techniques to expand and enhance your creative practice. We will work with Old (marbling) and New Technologies (Digital Imaging) to add to your Encaustic Art practice

Focus will be on:

  • Suminagashi (Japanese Marbling) on paper and fabric. This technique is a meditative, peaceful way to create patterns and images that can then be combined with monoprints, film transfers and wax.

  • Awagami Kozo papers to make prints that work seamlessly with encaustic

  • Inkjet printing on fabric – what are my options?

  • Film Transfers (InkAid) to apply a whole image or photographic elements to a variety of substrates

All of the above work wonderfully with encaustic techniques you may already have as part of your repertoire. The workshop will begin with an overview of the combinations one can use making images/prints on different substrates and then adding wax. Suminagashi prints will be demonstrated and made and discuss how these can be integrated with photos, monoprints other encaustic techniques. The same process will occur with the Awagami prints and then Film Transfers

The instructor will request participant files and make prints and film transfers prior to the workshop. It can be difficult to find service bureaus that print on the Awagami and fabric surfaces and even more difficult for the InkAid film transfers. This workshop is sponsored by Awagami, InkAid and of course R&F Handmade Paints! A video of the film transfer process can be found at www.pattirussotti.com

Visual artist, creative journey woman, knowledge-worker, and educator Patricia Russotti is passionate about examinations of the creative process, design, and education. Currently, she is focused on assisting emerging and established artists acquire practical tools to clarify their intent. Russotti, an early digital adaptor, 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. Her work has been consistently showcased through solo, group, and juried exhibitions. 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. 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. Her evolving methodology is continually featured at national and international conferences, and she has been a regular presenter at national and international imaging and education conferences since the 1980s. She also holds M.S. and Ed.S. Degrees from Indiana University, and spent 4 four decades as a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology – most recently in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Russotti’s current work is focused on entropy, negentropy, nature, and the small things she stumbles upon within the existing world. To view more of her work, visit www.pattirussotti.com.