A week ago tonight I was hiding out in the downstairs closet of my house after getting a text message from my daughter telling me to "Get in the closet, NOW!" Whew! So, the power company has been here to lift the line so hopefully I can get the second floor gutter (which is hanging half way off) fixed soon. A break in this heat would be nice as well. It's supposed to be around 105 tomorrow with a heat index of 110. Oh, c'mon. What's a few more degrees at this point?!
I had been working on transfers before the storm. I made several initial attempts. I started out with my own laser copied prints.
Made quite a mess and mess of the paper. I like to make messes, remember?
Everyone always swears by Golden products but I am not always able to find them when I want them so in this case I used another matte gel medium. Ok. So, I have gleaned about 3 different ways of doing this transfer and I tried two out of the three. It takes patience and work and the willingness to mess up what you think was ok to begin with and end up with a piece of torn, abused paper, but you really want to see if you can do this so you forge ahead.
Actually, I did this backwards. The above photos were the second attempt. The first attempt were these which came out ok. It was the next ones that weren't that ok.
And then a couple of days later I tried again. Again, I used a strip of my own work that had been laser printed and transferred it onto an index card that I had been "playing on" with sprayed inks. The result on the left side of the paper is the transferred image, or what I was left with after much gentle rubbing and spraying with water.
Today's ICAD starts out like this:
And ends up like this:
Here's a close up.
I would like to be brave and try a a transfer on canvas. Maybe it will hold up better, although I was amazed at how the larger index cards held up. Maybe I will try this weekend. I will keep you posted.
I hope you are well. Thanks for stopping by.
Made quite a mess and mess of the paper. I like to make messes, remember?
Everyone always swears by Golden products but I am not always able to find them when I want them so in this case I used another matte gel medium. Ok. So, I have gleaned about 3 different ways of doing this transfer and I tried two out of the three. It takes patience and work and the willingness to mess up what you think was ok to begin with and end up with a piece of torn, abused paper, but you really want to see if you can do this so you forge ahead.
Actually, I did this backwards. The above photos were the second attempt. The first attempt were these which came out ok. It was the next ones that weren't that ok.
And then a couple of days later I tried again. Again, I used a strip of my own work that had been laser printed and transferred it onto an index card that I had been "playing on" with sprayed inks. The result on the left side of the paper is the transferred image, or what I was left with after much gentle rubbing and spraying with water.
Today's ICAD starts out like this: 
And ends up like this: 
Here's a close up. 
I would like to be brave and try a a transfer on canvas. Maybe it will hold up better, although I was amazed at how the larger index cards held up. Maybe I will try this weekend. I will keep you posted.
I hope you are well. Thanks for stopping by.
You have so much patience and get lovely results with your layering! I usually give up around the third layer! LOL
ReplyDeleteA great final result, no matter what the process! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
ReplyDeletewe did a bunch of image transfers in my class last weekend - so much fun when they work, so frustrating when they don't.
ReplyDeleteTransfers are tricky things, but when they don't work I just treat it as another layer! :)
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