Digital Prints on Recycled Beverage Cans

  The first of these pieces is one I have been working on and it seems slowly indeed to get it to this point.  At this point there are over 200 cans in it and the size is 120" in height and 24" in width.  This is the first panel and I am working on at least 3 more. I thank all my friends for their can donations:)  The start of this piece is posted on July 10th this year.  The prints for this piece are and will continue to be patterns from Yosemite National Park's Mariposa Grove and the Waipoua Forest in Northern New Zealand.

                                                                      

Detail of piece

Now we have another piece I am working on.  This piece is also beverage cans that have been printed.

I am not sure this piece will continue on the way it is or change.  Not sure it is working for me and I have made several changes since I started it.  This would be another large piece.  My goal with these 2 pieces is to do an installation where the viewer could walk around these pieces that have prints based on the surfaces in a forest.  My vision is to build a walking forest from recycled printed cans.

Detail

The prints for this piece is a photograph from the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park.

New Online Workshops

Two new workshops have been added to the Kathyanne Art site.

The first is a mini workshop that is free to members of Kathyanne Art members

Garbage Journals consist of leftovers, collected papers, maps, fabrics etc. Most of the time mine are created for  specific purpose but they are always created rough and in a hurry. These journals are fast, spontaneous and fun to make.

Here are some examples of my garbage journals.  In the pdf for the workshop you will see how I put the pages together and assemble them in the journals.

 This workshop is $10 for non members and free to members.  Visit the KathyAnne Art Site to register and download the pdf.



The other workshop is a full workshop with an 18 page pdf of written information and a 35 minute video. The workshop is entitled


"Journals with Digital Elements"

Have you ever considered using digital elements in your journals or art books?  In this workshop you will design and construct your own original journal from cover to cover.  Exploring the numerable possibilities for using digital prints, patterns and textures in journals, art journals or art books.  Experiment with images and create surfaces that can be printed on ink jet printers.

You will:
Dye, paint and/or overprint the base pages
Work with inkAID digital grounds to coat surfaces for printing
Create transparent or textural skins
Print on fabric using carrier sheets
Design your pages in the journal
Create a cover
Put it all together

Questions are welcome at anytime.  This is an online workshop and can be accessed at any time.

The accompanying video has the following segments:
A chat about the workshop
Making a cheesecloth skin
Create painted pages
Overprint painted pages
Melt tyvek and lutradur
Take a look at how journals are created
Covers
A complete look at an art journal from start to finish

This workshop is $50.00 for non members and $40.00 for members.  Members make sure you sign  at  Kathyanne Art to get the membership discount.

These pieces are discussed in the workshop.

Book of Forests 5 - Grand Canyon

Book of Forests 5 - Grand Canyon

Each page of the book is approximately 12" high and 8" wide.

It is an accordion style book that stretches to about 27"

Book back

Book front

4 page detail

Page Detail- Digital print on canvas, dyed watercolor paper overprinted, print on melted tyvec, crocheted hemp

Dyed canvas, lutradur heat distressed, dyed cheesecloth, wire wrapped pieces of hemp, printed organdy and printed canvas

Dyed canvas, lutradur heat distressed, dyed cheesecloth, wire wrapped pieces of hemp, printed organdy and printed canvas

Digital print on tyvec with printed watercolor paper cut out and wrapped with heat distressed lutradur and wire

Strip pieces cut from digitally printed cheesecloth skins, printed canvas, printed metalic crinkle paper, along with pieces of dyed canvas and cheesecloth

Detail of 4 pages

Book of Forests 5 is based on images from the Grand Canyon. The piece is for a show at Tohono Chul Park in Tucson Arizona. The show "Canyons of the Southwest", will be on display from November 12, 2009 until January 10, 2010. If you haven't been to Tohono Chul and you are near Tucson, the part is a treat to visit. Check it out!

Digital Prints on Alternative Surfaces

Back in my studio today after spending a week traveling. First I went to Denver to participate in a seminar from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Imagine my disappointment when I arrived at the convention center in Denver and the instructor for the seminar didn’t show up. The organization didn’t even email anyone that morning to save them the drive into the city and the parking bill. My business trip was planned to install the piece pictured in this post, adding a couple of days early to do the NAPP seminar. NAPP rescheduled, but I am not returning to Denver to take this one.

Then the fun began installing my commission. This piece was commissioned by Mack Web Solutions in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The company wanted a piece to be installed in their new offices that was printed on my choice of alternative surfaces. The images used from the website are printed on both aluminum mesh and recycled beverage cans. I printed doubles of everything and then once in the space considered how the pieces would be used.

Here are some items that had to be considered:

The images for the piece were in 72 dpi and had to be enlarged without making the images blurry. I used a technique from Scott Kelby in one of his digital photography books. I had to change parts of how his instructions enlarged the image because mine was blurry. With a couple of adjustments to his instructions, my images were enlarged and printed at 150 dpi to keep them in focus.

The images to print on the cans are a little over 3". The beverage cans I used were only around that width, so I had to reprint many of the images that were hard to center on the cans. No amount of marking got the cans in the right place each time, but I did get enough to have them end up right.

Then, since I was not looking for the images to just be a copy of the website, I started to cut and play with the images to get the piece together. The globe is printed on aluminum mesh as well as the mack letters of the logo. There are 2 of each image stacked and cut then wired back together with beads in between the layers to separate the images. The images printed on cans are clips from websites the firm has designed. The cans were cut and wired together in 2 layers with beads in between to separate the layers.

Amate Bark Digital Print

Several projects have been going at one time and some of them were finished this past week. The subject of today's post is a piece that started when I made bark paper (featured in the previous post) using the Amate process. The finished piece is composed of 3 layers: the bottom is a piece of black hardware cloth with a 1/4" grid, above that is a piece of copper mesh that has been digitally printed, above that is a piece of the bark paper I printed with the same image on the copper mesh.

The photograph was taken in the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park this June. Photoshop was used to manipulate and combine the original photograph with another image. This piece is around 37" in height and 17" in width. The layers have been assembled using waxed linen tied through the three surfaces. The pictures show a few details and the actual piece.

Amate Bark Paper

Last weekend I spent Saturday morning learning how to make Amate paper. The fiber used in this work is a kozo from Thailand. I am also going to work with a kozo from Japan in a couple of weeks.

The long process starts with soaking the bark in water over night, boiling the bark and then simmering the bark for 8 hours or so. Once this all takes place the paper is ready to be made. From a pound of kozo I ended up with all sorts of different sizes of papers to test print. I experimented with thicknesses and textures and seeing what type of results I would get. The paper is beautiful and in the next couple of weeks, I will post my in process prints. KathyAnne Art members can see the whole pictorial from start to finish and pics of each step, on Art in Common. Join KathyAnne Art with this link.

Bark has been pounded with a rock to get to this point. Here it is still dryingThis is a piece that is already dry.

Printed after coating with inkAID
Another print. These 2 prints are from a larger piece of the grand canyon. They will be layered into something I am working on.

Digital Elements Textural Book

Finished working on a new book this afternoon. I will be adding it to my Etsy shop soon. While I was downloading the pictures for this post, I realized I didn't have a full view of one side of the piece, so I need to do that before I can add it to Etsy.

This book is 18" long when open accordion style, 4" high and 4" in depth. The book is made with digital prints on all sorts of surfaces. Each photo of the pages has a description of the materials from each page.

I started out with card stock squares and worked the composition on the individual squares using gel medium instead of glue to attach the composition to the base pages and build up the surace. Some pieces are sewn together, some wrapped with wire as they are assembled for each composition. attach them to the square before. As I put the pages together, 2 holes were punched in each side and then tied with hemp or wire to attach them.

Some of the materials used:

Digital prints on the following surfaces: organdy, watercolor paper, recycled beverage cans, metallic crinkle paper, hand made paper, hand made skin, tyvec, lutradur, canvas, metal mesh, copper mesh and velum.

Hemp, twigs, wire, dyed cheesecloth, dyed canvas, dyed burlap, beads, recycled quilt pieces and embroidery thread

Surface Design Association Conference Demonstration DVD

This is the Demonstration DVD from the Surface Design Association Conference "Off the Grid" in Kansas City 2009

Featured on the dvd are:

Kathyanne White: CREATING AND PRINTING UNCOMMON SURFACES:

Jane Dunnewold: SOY WAX THREE WAYS

Daniella Woolf: ENCAUSTIC FOR FIBER ARTISTS

Kerr Grabowski: DECONTSTRUCTED SCREEN PRINTING

Lias Klakulak: DIMENSIONAL MANIPULATION OF FELTED SURFACES

The DVD is $45.00

To purchase this DVD:

Extreme Textural Surfaces at Arrowmont

Digital prints on tyvek, lutradur heat distressed and watercolor paper. Prints are cut and wrapped with metal wire.
Digital prints on assorted papers place on wire and crocheted.
Digital prints on canvas, hand made cheesecloth skin, silk and metallic crinkle paper. The prints are cut and tied into hardware cloth.

These textural surface details above, are from a new piece, Book of Forests 4, in the works and not completed.


NEW WORKSHOP
Extreme Textural Surfaces
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
May 30-June 5, 2010

This workshop is designed to produce extremely interesting textural surfaces by manipulating fabric, paper and other substrates. During the workshop we will experiment with some if not all of the following items:

found objects
metals
twigs
hemp
canvas
paint
thread
recycled items
metal mesh
wire

Techniques in layering, embroidery, heat distressing, collage, digital printing and alternative bookmaking will be taught. We will look at uncommon ways to use surfaces, with exercises that stretch beyond where we have been before. Each participant will bring their special style to the surfaces created.

During the workshop we will explore the use of digital prints on fabric and specialy papers to be used in layers of textural fabric. You will learn how to print on fabric to be used in your various projects. We will print student images on a 4” x 6” printer during the workshop.

The materials presented in this workshop will encourage participants to come up with their interpretation of the ideas. Some sewing techniques will be used and sewing machines are helpful. For some of the textures we will combine machine and hand work.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Kathyanne

kathyanneart@mac.com

Surface Design Association Conference-Student Work

Metal Screen & Hand Made Substrate with Cheesecloth

Overprinting Painted Fabric
Lace Paper
Fabrics
Beverage Cans

Be sure to click on the images to get a closer look. It's amazing!

"Expanding the Digital Print to Uncommon Surfaces" Workshop

The first week of June 2009, I had the privilege of teaching a post conference workshop following "Off the Grid" the Surface Design Association Conference. During this workshop participants worked with digital printing on pimatex cotton, organdy, watercolor paper, metal screen, beverage cans, canvas, lace paper and a hand made substrate created with gel medium and cheesecloth.

The results for the workshop were exciting. Above are some of the examples of the surfaces that were printed in the workshop. All in all we printed 160 prints during the course of the workshop. My Epson 2400 was printing constantly and as usual it handled everything we needed it to. Pretty much all went smoothly and it was great working with all the participants.

One of the things I love the best about these workshops are the results students get from their creation. Being able to see the results on the last day is a unique experience and always inspiring!