Instructor: Patti Russotti
Monday - Wednesday
June 12 - 14
10am - 4pm
3 sessions

This workshop is designed to teach you how to think about and work with photographs, photographic elements and wax. Hot wax, cold wax, color, marking, and adding monoprint techniques will be discussed. Use your test prints and happy accidents to create collages, add more wax, color and stitching to bring them together. This class is an exploration in thinking about photographs and photographic elements within your work and experimenting with various techniques. The goal is to flow between digital and analog within your art practice. We will use photographs inkjet printed onto kozo, photographic elements using Ink Aid Transfer Film and Transfierz to create encaustic pieces. We will work primarily with Awagami Inkjet papers, explore the Film Transfer process and learn how to integrate these into your encaustic work. I will demonstrate and discuss working with silk and cotton inkjet substrates. The exact agenda will be decided after I talk with each participant to determine interests and skill levels.

This workshop is supported by Awagami Factory and InkAid.
There will be a lab fee for printing your images, cost of ink.

Patti Russotti is a mixed-media visual artist and educator.  She combines encaustic, film transfers, washi papers, fabric and stitching to investigate entropy in the natural world by drawing attention to the invisible and unseen. In her decades long career as artist/educator, she uses analog, digital, alternative, and historic processes to examine found and re- presented objects that symbolize an engagement with nature to navigate life, loss and grief. Patti investigates discrete collections of memory; the many layers we wrap around the day to day, for remembering, for letting go, or for discovering what, in the process, has become possible and to imagine what can yet become of them.