Expanding the Frame: Making Alternative Digital Prints With Patti Russotti in Guanajuato, Mexico

 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

Payment can be made via Venmo or Paypal

contact patti.russotti@gmail.com

Guanajuato Mexico is a magical city! 

And The rooftop studio at Alma Del Sol is even more magical.

 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 Instructional Videos

• inkAID Image Transfer Process

• inkAID Transfer Film

• YouTube: inkAID Image Transfer

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Student work from previous workshops.

Substrates:

paper, fabric, vintage textiles, glass, metal, wall paper, vintage book pages, multiple transfers ...

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