Over—Printing Felt Surfaces

By Kathyanne White

Felting is a beautiful form of fiber art. The surface is intriguing and textural in so many ways so it always interested me. For years I've wanted to pursue felted surfaces for digital printing. Getting the felt thin enough for printers however, can be somewhat of a challenge. That was until I met felt artist   Suzanne Morgan. Suzanne's felting and nuno felting are suitably thin enough to print. Recently Suzanne shared some of her felt pieces with me for experimenting. You can see and read about some of results on a blog post on my  Digital Alternative Surfaces site. 

For this video workshop I take one of Suzanne's felt pieces and show you how to create the image and work the print process. Photoshop CS6 is used to manipulate the image for the overprint. Once the image is ready, again using Photoshop CS6 we will go through printing the image.

The process of overprinting can be used in many ways. An overprint is used on a surface that has some type of design, color, pattern something that can be seen already on the surface. This technique can be used on any surface you want to print—felt or not. If you love felt, this is awesome and an entire new alternative surface for digital printing. 

Purchase this workshop at this link and you will receive the pdf file with information to access the workshop by email within 24 hours. $9.95

Mixing Digital Prints and Encaustic

This month's new mini workshop on KathyAnne Art is "Mixing Digital Prints and Encaustic"

The encaustic process intrigues me and I find it a great mix with digital prints.  My work with encaustic allows me to expand my ideas while assembling surfaces.

In this workshop,  I will take you through my process working with both my digital prints on a few types of surfaces and encaustic medium.  Amazing texture can be achieved mixing the two mediums.  If you are looking to learn a lot about the encaustic process, you can check out the books in the materials list.  We will not be learning the total encaustic process, but how it relates to mixing digital prints, wax and texture from my point of view.  If you want to get into encaustic work I advise you to take a workshop or find books on the subject. For books on the step by step process in encaustic check the material list at the end of the workshop. I list my favorite books on the subject.

This workshop is free to KathyAnne Art members, so members be sure to sign in and then use this url.

If you are a non member this workshop is $15.00 and you can purchase it by clicking HERE