I love this beautiful piece of art by ZNE Member Patti Koosed:
Can you tell me how she achieves that image transfer?
Patti shares the following with us:
I learned to do this from Cindy at Layers Upon Layers.
I printed out the background . Use any background you desire.
I took the print out of the background and layed it on my table.
Then I chose the image. In this case it is the faces of the little children.
When you do a transfer the image will be reversed so you may want to take that in to consideration when doing a collage.
I found a picture I wanted to use, in this case the Little Faces of children and I printed that on regular paper.
As soon as you pull the image you are transfering off of your printer, you need to paint the area on your background page with GOLDEN MEDIUM, covering the area that will be accepting the transfer.
I then immediately turned the Little Faces image face down and laid it on the background on top of the modge podge glue.
I immediately used a popcicle stick to rub the image onto the Polymer Golden Medium.
The time to wait before removing the paper varies and practice is needed for the first few times. I find that it only takes about 1 minute maybe not even that long.
I then very slowly started at one corner of the image being transfered and peeled it back. This image of the little faces is what came out.
The wonderful thing about transferring images is that you can get the entire image (which I have not been able to do yet) or you get pieces of the image and in this case, I got pieces.
The paper I used to print out the image of the little faces already had an image of a butterfly on it and it was transferred also which turned out okay.
I embellished with the image of the girl with a book from a magazine and also the fan just above the little faces. I then sealed it with Golden Medium.
Just play with it and see how it feels. This was my first so I am no expert but I am happy to share how I did this one and I am looking foward to doing many more.
Hope this helped .
I was taught to use photo paper but I found that regular paper on both the background print out and the image transfer works better for me.
