Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints and Mark Making
With Patti Russotti in Guanajuato, Mexico- Location: The Rooftop Studio at Alma del Sol
- Dates: January 18–24, 2026
- Workshop: Monday through Friday, January 19–23
- Arrival: January 18 | Departure: January 24
- Limited to 8 Participants
- Workshop Fee = $1500
- Zoom class: December 15 time TBA
- Registration deadline is December 1, 2025
Guanajuato Mexico is a magical city!
And The rooftop studio at Alma Del Sol is even more magical.
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Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints on a Variety of Surfaces and Mark-Making
With Patti Russotti in Guanajuato, Mexico
Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints with inkAID Transfer Film, Transfierez, and inkAID Receptive Coatings on a Variety of Surfaces
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
• 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 monoprinting, 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
• 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 transfer
• 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
• 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?
• 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 wax or mixed media?
If yes, you’ll love this workshop!
Contact Patti at patti.russotti@gmail.com with any questions and to register
Learn More About the Process
• inkAID Image Transfer Process
• inkAID Transfer Film
• YouTube: inkAID Image Transfer
Guanajuato Mexico
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