Digital Printmaking Workshops for 2010
Here is a very short list of upcoming specialty workshops that focus on Digital Fine Art Printmaking, Alternative Digital Printmaking, and Digital Mixed Media for 2010. I am sure there are many others available ( I will add to the list as I come across them OR if you happen to know of any in your area, please email the details to me as I would be happy to add them to the list.
*New Addition – Feb 11,2010
Gary Wornell Digital Printmaking Workshops
Instructor: Gary Wornell
Location: Riihimäki, Finland
2 Day MASTERCLASS in March:
20.03.10 – 21.03.10 (Saturday – Sunday)
2 Day Workshops in April and June:
09.04.10 – 10.04.10 (Friday – Saturday)
05.06.10 – 06.06.10 (Saturday – Sunday)
2 Day course outline 2 Day Printing course
4 Day Workshops in April, and June:
17.04.10 – 18.04.10 and 24.04.10 – 25.04.10
(Saturday – Sunday – 2 weekends)
17.06.10-20.06.10 (Thursday – Sunday)
Gary Wornell regularly gives 2 and 4 day Digital Printmaking Workshops at his studio in Riihimäki, Finland. The courses are designed for artist professionals and skilled amateurs as well as photographers and traditional print makers who wish to expand their craft printing repertoir.
The courses are lively, energetic and informative and provide a perfect starting point for beginners and advanced printmakers to explore new territory. With a good selection of Epson Large Format Stylus Pro and Stylus Photo printers, everyone can find out just what makes these printers so versatile.
Previous workshops have included participants from other parts of Europe interested in meeting like-minded artists and the result is a cross fertilization of ideas and techniques. Bookings can be made several months in advance with courses running in two and 4 day blocks as well as 4 day workshops spread over 2 weekends.
Gary Wornell Workshops – website page
*New Addition – Jan.25,2010
Santa Fe Workshops: Fine Art Digital Printmaking
Instructors: David Saffir & Jack Duganne
February 28 – March 6, 2010 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Our third year! Make your photographic vision come to life in this Advanced Photography Experience/Digital Lab workshop. Join two accomplished photographers and fine art printmakers, Jack Duganne and David Saffir for this exciting, hands-on journey from a photo shoot on-location in the Santa Fe area, through high-intensity classroom sessions in image processing and editing, all the way to printing your new color or black and white images on brand-new state-of-the-art HP pigment-based inkjet printers. This is a work-group style session, with one-on-one work. This limits the workshop to a dozen or so participants, so enroll early and reserve your spot.
David Saffir Santa Fe Workshop website
David Saffir’s Blog
Painterly Print-Digital grounds for Fine Artists & Photographers
Instructor: Sandie Bacon
March 6, 2010 – 12-5pm (Water Street Studios, Batavia, Il)
Using our new digital grounds(Golden) we can print images from our computer’s printer on any of a variety of surfaces: paint skins, gels, acetate, metallic papers, etc. These are wonderful techniques for mixed media artists, creating layers, or for limited edition multiples. Printing on transparent surfaces is also terrifc for artist cards and ornaments.
www.goldenpaints.com
Water Street Studios website
B&W Printmaking: Classic Fine Art Aesthetics- Digital Tools
Instructor: Rich Seiling
June 2-6, 2010 (Yosemite National Park)
September 15-19, 2010 (Yosemite National Park)
Participants in this workshop will learn how to craft B&W photographic prints with a classic fine-art aesthetic, using digital tools. The main emphasis is on learning how to make expressive decisions in Photoshop to create files that can be output on any device. We’ll also explore film and digital options for image capture, portfolio development, and output options.
Incorporating Digital Technology: Mixed Media Digital Printmaking Workshop
Instructors: Mary Taylor & Christopher Shore
June 8 – 11, 2010 (Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT)
4 Days, Tues. through Fri., 10am- 4 pm June 8 – 11, 2010. Explore how new digital printmaking tools can be combined with traditional printmaking. Experiment with fine art digital printing processes. This workshop is for artists who want to go beyond the “flat” digital print by using fine art papers, collage materials, and traditional media. The emphasis will not be on the final product but focused on exploration, experimentation and helping participants develop new techniques that are complimentary to their existing talents.
www. marytaylorart.com
www.contemprints.org
Adventures in Mixed Media Collage with Acrylics
Instructor: Bonnie Cutts
Date: July 19 – 23, 2010 - 9 – 4 (Grand Marais Art Colony,MN)
From Thunder Bay, Ontario, it’s only 80 miles to Grand Marais, MN
Get ready to embark on a creative journey of mixed media art while applying all sorts of acrylic paints, gels and gel skins to a variety of luscious surfaces. Bring along images (high contrast photos or drawings no larger than 5” x 7”) you wish to collage onto your canvas. You will scan and print them onto acrylic skins that you run through an inkjet printer. Sound amazing? It is. Add excitement as you become familiar with other image transfer techniques that you can playfully work into your artwork. Apply multiple layers of paint and gels and watch your images take on a life of their own. Make your marks and make your statement as you paint, draw, collage and paint some more. Clean color mixing and interference and iridescent paints will be introduced, along with different grounds that are available to the painter. Relax, loosen up and have fun creating pieces of art filled with your own personal touches as well as gain a ton of useful information about the acrylic materials you will have available to use throughout the week.
A Digital Stretch Workshop in Santorini,Greece
Instructor: Mary Ann Rolfe
Oct 9-16, 2010 (Santorini, Greece)
A Digital Stretch in Santorini
During this workshop students will learn techniques to produce Digital Glass, Translucent Window Panels, Digital Tiles, Digital Jewelry & embellishments along with material choices, transfer techniques, printing tips for these techniques, generating ideas, a variety of professional assembling and finishing techniques, problem solving, workflow methods for overcoming blockages, mental and physical tips for stimulating and maintaining creativity. Exploring Digital candles, boxes, textiles and using the student’s digital camera files to generate images will be explored as time permits. The power of the computer will be demonstrated although this workshop is also suitable for students who don’t use the computer. It is more about what to do with images than creating the images.
http://toscanaamericana.com/rolfedigitalsantorini.html
www.digitalstretch.com
Digital Pop Can Prints
Artist Kathyanne White shares how to recycle aluminum beverage cans by using them
to create amazing digital prints. - YouTube Link
Image from Kathyanne White’s website – Title: Kauri Forest
I especially love this particular print above, the colours and composition are truly perfect!!
ARTIST QUOTE: “My work is about opening up and going forward with the wealth of possibilities that flow from within. The interplay of the shapes and hand dyed colors are endless; the process of exploration leads me on unpredictable journeys.”
Kathyanne White
To view Kathyanne’s impressive works using various digital substrates, read about her upcoming workshops, and contact her, please check out her sites & blogs listed below:
Alternative Digital Printing Exhibition
Best in Show / In The Fog – 10″ X 15″ Acrylic Aluminum Print
Artist: Timothy C. Burns, Aurora, IL
Image from BookSmartStudio website
2nd Annual Juried Alternative Digital Printing Exhibition Reception
Sponsored by Canon USA, inkAID, & Booksmart Fine Art Metals
Reception Hours: June 5th, 2009 6PM–9PM
Gallery Kunstler – Booksmart Studio – 250 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607 U.S.A.
Gallery Hours: M-F 9:00-6:00
Booksmart Studio prides itself on embracing the new digital printing technologies while holding on to the old values of traditional craftsmanship, printmaking, photography, and the studio arts. The studio meticulously combines these old values with new technology to create works that encompass both state-of-the-art printing and classic hands-on personalization. This exhibition will celebrate the combination of new technology with an enduring emphasis on fine craftsmanship and quality.
Juried by renowned photographer Barbara Ellison, the exhibition represents an array of international artists who are exploring the possibilities of alternative process digital printing.
CLICK HERE to view all exhibition entries.
New Digital Fine Art Paper
image from Hahnemühle FINEART website
Sugar Cane (due out Spring 2009)
300 gsm · 75% Bagasse fiber · 25% cotton · natural white
“Hahnemühle Sugar Cane combines the high standards of a FineArt inkjet paper with responsible use of raw materials. A “bagasse” pulp is used that is a by-product of raw sugar production. The cotton portion is made from recycling our own paper waste. Displaying the fine texture of a pastel paper Sugar Cane lends every image an artistic look and feel. Hahnemuhle will donate a percentage of each Sugar Cane 300gsm paper sale toward worthy international environmental projects.”
see more, read more: HERE
press release link via: www.cameratown.com
Digital Printmaking – Beyond Paper & Canvas
A while back I did some thinking about the “Digital Artistic Process” and concluded that when creating digitally you have to wear “2 Hats”. The first “hat”, that of artist-creator, and the second “hat”, that of printmaker. Since we as digital artists do not directly apply paint to canvas, or pencil stroke to paper, or chisel to stone, that means our creative thinking/working patterns are a little different. Our final work of art remains in the original matrix (our computer) for viewing, that is, until we decide to materialize it, in the form of an output on a digitally receptive substrate, ie: a digital fine art print.
Definition of “Substrate”:
Ultimately, the material that receives the printed image. Sometimes called “media” in digital printing. The single or multi-layered base material of the medium, which can have a very simple or complex structure and is a carrier for the coating, if present. Glossary of Digital Art and Printmaking
Link to Glossary
For example, two years ago I decided I wanted to digitally print one of my images directly onto a rigid metal substrate. Since I fell in love with the beautiful sheen and lovely texture of brushed aluminum panels, I decided I wanted to allow a certain amount of this brilliant surface to show through in the final work. So even before opening my computer, I had to work in reverse and think as a printmaker would. “Transparency” was the keyword. Therefore I remembered my days working in the art department of a commercial printer and proceeded with my image accordingly. It worked! I was very happy with the final print. (below- Field of Memories)
Field of Memories ©2007 Carol Cooper / on display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Jan/2007
4FT W X 2FT H – UV Cured ink on brushed aluminum panel
(Close-up) Field of Memories ©2007 Carol Cooper
For testing purposes, another print was made at the same time. With this one I lowered the opacity of the image to see if I could still get a certain amount of the brushed aluminum to show through. Although it did look “OK” it was somewhat bland to the eye. (below – Quarter Horse)
Quarter Horse ©2007 Carol Cooper
13″ W X 19″ H UV Cured Ink on brushed aluminum panel
And I did one final test, this time using a “white” rigid substrate, rather than the brushed aluminum. I held the opacity at 100% and added a top “texture” layer before flattening the image. I was surprised with the outcome of this one, it truly “popped”, the colours along with the texture. (below – Allure)
Allure ©2007 Carol Cooper
12″ H X 15″ W - UV Cured Ink on white aluminum composite substrate
Allure on display at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto – 29Sept2007
image credit: Bau-xi Gallery
It’s great to explore alternative digital printmaking processes, truly a learning curve, but oh so much fun!!
Here are a few resources, if you would like to read more, see more:
BOOK: “Digital Art Studio”: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials by Karin Schminke, Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Pierce Lhotka
http://www.digitalatelier.com/book.html
BLOG: Aine Scannell’s blog – Tradigital Printmaking
http://tradigitalprintmaking.blogspot.com/
WEBSITE: FADE – Fine Art Digital Environment
The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking
http://www.faderesearch.com/digitalsurface/
ARTICLE: Printing Isn’t an Island Part 4 – Printing on Various Substrates
Article written by artist Paula Sanders
http://www.perpetualvisions.com/column-articles/substrate-printing-alt4.htm
WORKSHOPS: with artist Mary Taylor - “BEYOND THE DIGITAL PRINT: MIXED-MEDIA DIGITAL PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES FOR COMBINING INKJET PRINTING AND ARTIST MATERIALS” – & other workshops available – Various locations & dates – check out her website for complete details:
http://marytaylorart.com/PGS/TAT_Workshops.htm
