Patti Russotti
Patti Russotti
Artist, explorer, maker, and educator Patricia Russotti is passionate about examinations of the creative process, design, and education. Russotti’s current work is focused on entropy, negentropy, nature, and the small things she stumbles upon within the existing world as well as the edges of time and space.
Russotti, an early digital adaptor, has been training and presenting on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom since the first versions of the applications and employs these tools in the creation of her work. Her work has been consistently showcased through solo, group, and juried exhibitions. Her practice reflects a breadth and depth of experience and skill in image-making (including analog, digital, alternative, and historic processes), workflow, as well as digital output to a variety of substrates, such as fabric and washi.
She is the co-author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook, A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve © 2010, published by Elsevier Inc, Focal Press. Her evolving methodology is continually featured at national and international conferences, and she has been a regular presenter at national and international imaging and education conferences since the 1980s. She also holds M.S. and Ed.S. Degrees from Indiana University, and spent 4 four decades as a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology – most recently in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.
Currently, she is focused on assisting emerging and established artists acquire practical tools and concepts to clarify their intent.
You can view Patti’s work at:
Class Details
The digital to analog to digital to analog … loop
This session will explore thinking and working in both the analog and digital world.
Use a camera (either a Dslr or phone) to capture stages of your work and then
Bring that image into various apps to experiment and play, problem solve and then go back to the analog, either as a print to wax and mark or use the digital file as a “test ground” to then work analog.
Possible Results
Sometimes a film transfer may be best or
A series of film transfers and layers of wax or
Simply a pigment (inkjet) print and then paint, mark and wax...
I will take a project through the entire process/digital to analog… loop - ideation to end. I will start with a digital image, make a print, photograph the print and then use PhotoShop to manipulate and play with textures, and color, and add other elements…