2012 Workshop List
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MAY 2012
Austin, Texas
May 18-20, 2012
This workshop is designed to be your complete guide to digital printing on uncommon types of substrates. We will prepare and print fabric, specialty paper, substrates we build ourselves, beverage cans and metal mesh. During the course of this workshop you will be introduced to many ideas for you to continue your exploration of the alternative digital printing process once the workshop is over.
For a better understanding of this type of process and how images print with different substrates and precoats, it is recommended you use one image throughout the workshop. Images that work best are all over prints without strong dividing lines such as a floral scene. If you have any questions about suitable images, please email me.
Exercises on color correction, size and resize and printer profiles will be available for students to understand how to create quality prints. The current Photoshop CS will be used for demonstration, but instructions will also be printed using the current Photoshop Elements program at the time.
The $50.00 student fee will provide participants with:
All surfaces for printing
inkAID precoats
gel medium
ink for printing
printer access
carrier sheets
There is a small supply list for participants to bring which is available when you sign up.
I will also provide digital and textural elements and watercolor paper for students to experiment with digital prints and assemblage ideas.
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JUNE 2012
Pushing Forward with Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces
June 16 and 17, 2012
9AM to 4PM
Kathyanne Art Studio
930 S. Cowboy Springs Trl.
Prescott, AZ 86305
Workshop fee of $375.00 for the 2 days with a $50.00 materials fee payable at workshop.
Deposit of $190.00 balance paid 30 days before workshop.
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My In-Studio Workshops have a 4 person limit
click here to pay balance of $185 30 days before workshop
click here to pay for full workshop tuition $375
My In-Studio Workshops have a 4 person limit
In order for a student to participate in this workshop they must have digital alternative printing experience. A prerequisite such as my In Studio workshop on April 28 & 29, “Getting Started with Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces”. If you have not taken one of my digital printing classes before, you can take my online course “Getting Started with Digital Prints on Uncommon Surfaces” from the KathyAnne Art site to prepare. Contact me for details.
This workshop will focus on extreme surface preparation for alternative digital printing. We will be experimenting rather then creating finished prints, but you will print. Cutting edge surfaces will be the goal. We will also experiment with after print processes like encaustics. Sewing may be included, but I have several machines and plenty of supplies.
We will use altered kozo bark and pound it into amate bark paper, dry, coat and print. Amate bark is an amazing surface for printing if constructed correctly. This technique may be used with other fiber. Surfaces will be built and techniques shown to make sure substrates will print safely. Feel free to bring some prints or pieces of prints to experiment with some of the after process ideas. Some of my prints will be available to use so that students will be able to experiment with some construction ideas.
This will be an adventurous and uniquely experimental day.
A laptop will be helpful. Images may need to be altered to fit the size and the look of your surface. I will have jump drives to move and load images for printing.
When building surfaces elements may be added that could affect the look of the final print. We will scan and/or photograph these types of surfaces in order to create a print based on the substrate.
Bring lunch since there is no place near to get something to eat. I have water, diet soft drinks and ice tea and will have some snacks. There are a few errors in some of the gps tracking for directions. Let me know where you are driving from, so I can give you correct directions.
This studio is in a rural area on a dirt road. I do have animals around including a cat in case you are allergic.
Be sure to wear comfortable clothes that won't matter if you get some type of product on them. If you want to wear gloves while painting or applying products please bring them.
Come with your imagination, questions, ideas and desire to explore. We will deal in what if's while we create extreme surfaces that safely print on my printers. Any questions feel free to call.
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JULY 2012
Hudson River Valley Art Workshops
Greenville, New York
July 1-7, 2012
DESCRIPTION
This workshop will teach you everything you need to know about digital printing on alternative surfaces. Starting with specialty paper and fabrics and beyond. During the 5 days with this subject you will be amazed at what is created.
Techniques such as overprinting, adding elements to a surface before printing, light weight metal mesh, beverage cans and handmade substrates will give students ways to start experimenting and printing alternative surfaces successfully during and after the workshop.
Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (in the current version at the time) will be used for any instruction on working with and printing digital images. There will be information and ideas for image manipulation, correcting color, resizing an image and the proper way to print successfully using printer profiles.
Before the close of this workshop we will experiment with assembling digital surfaces. This will be comparable to doing studies with the prints you created in the workshop. There is no end to the amazing ways we can work with digital prints. You will get ideas and learn ways to successfully use digital prints to add elements to you artwork. Consider the prints you will create during the workshop accordingly. If you have a specific idea you would like to test, bring the supplies for that. I will bring a stash of items for students to play with. I will be happy to speak with individual students before the workshop to help clarify this idea and assist each student to arrive fully prepared.
If you have never been to Hudson River Valley Workshops before you will be amazed at the facility. The classroom is always open, so if you want to work other then workshop times you are welcome to. At least one evening we work with Photoshop ideas and shortcuts.
I am looking forward to an incredible week for students to learn about expanding the digital print and assembling your results. Whether you are a fiber artist or a mixed media artist this class will enable you to add digital elements to your work. Techniques will be taught on innovative ways to use your printed alternative surfaces in your artwork.
Join us for a week to push the envelope with digital prints and your art.
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Art Unraveled 2012
Phoenix Arizona
August 7, 2012
Explore Digital Printing
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Art Unraveled 2012
Phoenix Arizona
August 7, 2012
Explore Digital Printing
One of the amazing things about digital printing is the amount of surfaces you can use to print images for your artwork and journals. In this workshop students will print surfaces that have been prepared in advance. There will also be complete instructions to prepare surfaces for future printing. We will explore printing on fabric, lightweight metal, cheesecloth skin, tyvek and watercolor paper.
During the workshop we will use 2 Epson small format printers as everyone prints the surfaces from their kits for hands on experience. Learning how to use these 4” x 6” format printers prepares students to use other direct pass through printers to print alternative surfaces in the future. This workshop is mostly a process workshop although participants will make a small project of a mini journal and/or artist trading cards with some of their printed images. Additional materials will be available for students to use to experience working with printed surfaces to create mini journals or artist trading cards.
Each student will receive a CD containing a pdf of information about the digital printing process on alternative surfaces including printer profiles, sizing and resizing images, supplier information, a description of precoats and step by step instruction for applying precoats. See my youtube channel for a look at the surfaces we will print-
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SEPTEMBER 2012
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, Massachusetts
Extreme Textural Surfaces
September 15, 2012
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, Massachusetts
Journal Quilts
September 16, 2012
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OCTOBER 2012
Pro Chemical & Dye
Somerset Massachusetts
October 11-14, 2012
For this workshop we will explore the possibilities with digital printing on fabric and then push further. In the beginning we will learn the basic process of preparing and printing silk, cotton and a simple cheesecloth skin. We will compare inkAID precoats to observe different affects the coatings can have on a fabrics. In this process we will discover what precoat to use on which surface and why.
We will dye and/or paint fabric and design a digital print for overprinting the colored fabric. We will experiment with adding elements to the surface before coating and printing. We will go over the practice of color correction, sizing and resizing a print and work with printer profiles. This part of the process will help students to understand how to achieve a successful print.
Tessellation type patterns will be demonstrated and practiced along with regular repeat patterns we take from an image. The patterns will be used in a layer style to add texture to parts of an image.
