Simple Gel Medium Skins

March Workshop of the Month for KathyAnne Art

This video workshop will take you through my process of creating a basic gel medium skin to use for digital printing. This is the simplest form of a skin for printing. You will see the way skins are created and attached to a carrier sheet.

Digitally printed skins can stand alone and are also wonderful additions to all types of mixed media artwork. Try a few and see where this process takes you. Get creative with uses for your printed skins. 

Members log into the KathyAnne Art site and go to this url to access the workshop.

Non members you can purchase this workshop for $9.95 by clicking here.  Your workshop will be emailed to you within 24 hours.

Variations on Digital Printing Dyed Fabric

Last month the workshop of the month for KathyAnne Art members 

was about digital printing on colored paper. This

 month we will look 

at digital printing on dyed fabric.  

This workshop is free to members.  Member log into the site and then go to this url for the workshop.

Non members if you would like to purchase this workshop for $9.95 click here.

Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces: Colored Papers

Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces: Colored Paper Workshop

by Kathyanne White

Digital printing on colored paper is a magnificent way to develop 

fascinating printed images.  Some papers such as lace are 

fragile to print and many custom hand made papers could

 fall apart when they get wet.  If you coat your fragile paper 

with single strokes and lift the paper quickly and gently to place on flat

 plastic to dry, you shouldn’t have any problems.   This workshop will 

focus on two types of colored paper one fragile and one sturdy. 

Both papers have appealing surface texture before adding the precoat.

Members of KathyAnne Art Log in to the site and then go to this page to download the workshop

Non member click here to buy the workshop for $9.95.

Digital Prints and Encaustic Workshop

By Kathyanne White

When working with hot wax and digital prints I loosely call it encaustic since it isn't quite what we think of when we say encaustic.  My set up uses Purified Beeswax and Damar Resin-Encaustic Medium.  Usually for encaustic this medium would be mixed with pigment.  

"By definition- Encaustic (which goes by hot wax painting) is an ancient technique.  The artist heats beeswax to the liquid stage, then mixes in pigmentation.  The resulting medium is applied to a surface."

For encaustic a base like clapboard, wood, ceramics, stretched canvas and other rigid types of surfaces are used.  These rigid surfaces protect the wax from cracking after it cools.  My take on encaustic for this workshop is different than my precious encaustic tutorials and articles.  One of my previous encaustic workshops "Mixing Digital Prints and Encaustic"  used hot wax to combine digital prints on a rigid surface in different configurations.  In this current workshop is a straight forward simple way to combine wax with a non rigid surface..............

Members of KathyAnne Art this workshop is free to you.  Log in and go to this url for the workshop.
Non members you can purchase this workshop for $9.95 by clicking here.

Non members don't forget that a membership to KathyAnne Art is $35.00 a year.  Members have access to a new workshop every month and the over 50 free to member workshops now available on the site-click here to join.

Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces:Tyvek

Tyvek is an incredible surface to print.  The prepared tyvek I used is available at Digital Art Supplies in San Diego.  This type of tyvek creates a beautiful matte finished print.  Tyvek has been one of my favorite surfaces because of it's melting properties.  In this video workshop I show how I work with tyvek and then you go your own way to see how you like to heat distress this surface.  There are some finished pieces shown in the video and also the pdf written information.

Members log in and go to this url to access the workshop.  Non members you can purchase this workshop for $9.95 by clicking here.   Your workshop will be emailed to you within 24 hours.

Yosemite National Park Images

Yosemite National Park is one of the most amazing places on this planet.  Trees have long influenced my work and Mariposa Grove in Yosemite is always a special place for inspiration.  I have many favorite spots depicted here in the Fall.  This was the first time I was in Yosemite at this time of year.  It was stunning and the wether amazing for late October into early November.

The following photographs have been posted on my KathyAnne Art Website.  They are available royalty free for members and $3.00 an image for non members. Visit the Yosemite Collection here and another page here to download. 

 Forest on the way to Mirror Lake

 Trail to Vernal Falls

Mariposa Grove

 Tuolumne Grove

Tuolumne Grove

 My favorite spot on the Merced River to find El Capitan reflections

 My favorite spot on the Merced River to find El Capitan reflections

Another good spot for El Capitan reflections

On the trail to Vernal Falls

inkAID Precoats Play

For this mini workshop we start out with an excerpt from one of the chapters in my upcoming book “Digital Printing Alternative Surfaces: the definitive source”.  After that we are going to play with inkAID precoats to add surface interest just by applying inkAID precoats in an unusual way.  After you get familiar with how inkAID coatings are used you will get to test your knowledge with a bit of surface design.

This workshop is free to Kathyanne Art Members click here to download the workshop  after you log in on the site

Non Members the workshop is $9.95 Click here to pay for your workshop.  You will receive the PDF by email within 24 hours.