Days of Christmas Twelfth

On the Twelfth Night of Christmas

I give to you....

a plain paper ink jet print transfer demo

OK, by request and certainly not because I am any kind of expert at this, I am showing how I transfer an image onto canvas.

Here is what you need:

A canvas

An image printed on plain paper with and ink jet printer (my mother).

Golden Soft Gel (matte)

Also, note that you can do this same process using a photocopy from a copy machine that uses powder type toner.

Here I have cut out the part of the image that I want to transfer. Notice I have laid the image face down where I want to transfer it and drawn around it. This is so I will know where to put it once the medium is on it.

You have to work pretty fast because the paper seems to soak up the medium . The above picture shows medium over the photo. I used my finger to spread it. It is pretty thick and so after I took the picture I dipped my finger into the water jug and went over it quickly for a more even spread. You may also want to try brushing the medium onto the canvas and laying the image into it. I do both. Actually, I think I may prefer to paint the medium on the canvas instead of the image. But I don't seem to remember that.

You want to get quick good contact with the canvas. Start rubbing the image all over to accomplish this.

Here you can see the image start to show through more. Actually, I wet my finger very slightly and started rubbing over the image. You want to rub off the layer of paper and leave the ink on the canvas.

Here you can see that the paper is rolling off.

I'm not real happy about the place to the left of her nose and the chin that didn't transfer.

In other word, I may have been too aggressive rubbing or who knows?

Do not expect it to be perfect. It won't be.

Anyway, Norah'S just telling me it will be a better challenge...not to worry.

I love her.

More paper rolling off. Keep gently rubbing.

All the white layer is rolled off but I'm still rubbing.

Maybe I should quit but I don't because it is not smooth.

I keep rubbing until I have actually removed a layer of paper with ink on it.

Sorry that the lighting changed here but you can see that I kept rubbing until I ended up with a smooth layer of ink on the canvas.

Now, I'm going to go paint.

While the batteries are charging, I'm going to think about what I will do next.

I have a little bit of a sketch in mind.

I will try to take a few shots along the way.

Wish me luck.

I'm nursing a head cold. And when I say nursing it, I mean I am feeding it. I can't seem to stop eating. HELP.

If all goes well, I will be back tomorrow, the day of the Epiphany, with the finished canvas.

More later,

Sharon