Back to the Photo Transfer

Well last night I decided to try the photo transfer process again as my daughter had made several prints on a laser printer.  So with fingers crossed I grabbed a canvass and tried again though this time I applied the gel medium directly on the canvass and applied the picture face down and smoothed out any air bubbles. Went to bed with fingers and toes crossed and dreamed of photo transfer projects. :)  I forced myself to make coffee first before approaching the canvass with a bucket of water and determination to see if it took.  I sat there patting water on the picture, sipping on coffee waiting for the paper layer to become translucent.  I started rubbing lightly, then more vigorously until I was forced to put down my coffee and hold the canvass.  I need something whereby I can still drink that first cup of coffee while leaving my hands free, maybe one of those hats they rig up for beer drinkers.  LOL  That would be a sight to behold but it's like opening a present wondering what's underneath the wrappings.  Finally I started to feel the paper loosen and start balling up and the photo image was staying the canvass.  Yipppeee.  I just kept rubbing and voila it worked, the only thing is I would rub more lightly once the paper started to come off as I did rub away a bit of the image in spots but it does give the picture a slightly worn look.  To finish it I cut some braid to put around the picture and I am going to do the foil around the edges like the picture frames in one of my earlier posts.  Once completed I will post a picture.  I am hoping to get this completed this morning as I am off to visit with my Mom overnight and of course they are calling for a snowstorm this afternoon.  I hate snow or let me rephrase that I hate driving in snow. :)  Just a quick note of a website I was looking at last night, this artist paints with oils on copper and her work is amazing, her work appears luminous in the way she captures light in her work, if you have a moment you should check her out at http://reneelammers.com/.  Her blog is very interesting as well.

I am back home now and have finished my photo transfer project, I still need to do some fine tuning for future projects but overall I am pleased with the results which has a vintage feel to it.

You can see on the picture below where I rubbed a little too hard and some of the image rubbed away.  I glued some braid around the edge of the image to give some definition.

The next picture is where I have applied glue to the rest of the canvass plus the braiding around image and carefully applied the crumpled aluminum foil.

This picture is the finished product and I have rubbed black paint with a sponge over foil and glued on some buttons.  Plus I brushed on Aleene's Paper Glaze over the photo image to give it a glass like finish.