Explore Digital Printing Tuesday 9 - 4:30 $145 Kathyanne White
Student Level: All
Type of Workshop: Process with digital prints and mini projects to take home
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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- Look for the video with Art Unraveled 2012 Explore Digital Printing
http://www.youtube.com/user/kathyannewhite?feature=mhee
Kit fee of $25 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
- surfaces prepared to print including: fabric, lightweight metal, cheesecloth skin, tyvek (the professional printing type) and watercolor paper.
- printer ink for printing surfaces
- carrier sheets
- wrapped wire to assemble the mini journals
- paper to create a mini journal or artist trading cards
Instructor supplies:
- items to use for collage during the workshop for mini journals and/or small collage in the form of artist trading cards, so students can play with already printed surfaces during the workshop.
- heat gun to melt tyvek
- mixed media items for students to use in their mini journals or collage cards
Students should bring:
- 1/2” scotch double face tape available at Michaels, Wal Mart, office supply stores...
- small jar, 8 oz gel medium to be used as glue for the journals or collage.
- brush for the gel medium
- 6 images to print-4” x 6” @150 ppi jpgs - bring a camera card or jump drive with your images, I will also have images for printing if you want to use mine instead of bringing your own. Email me at kathyanneart@me.com with questions.
- old photographs for collage play, be sure you want to cut these up.
Questions? Email Kathyanne at kathyanneart@me.com
Website: kathyanneart.blogspot.com