TUTORIAL : ACRYLIC GEL MEDIUM WITH MIXED MEDIA TRANSFER AND BEESWAX

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Some mixed media works ...

Image Transfer Workshop: Mixed-Media Techniques
Darlene Olivia McElroy (Author), Sandra Duran Wilson (Author)

The best book about image transfer techniques...

Image Transfer Workshop introduces you to a vast number of transfer techniques (complete with finished art samples) that go well beyond the rudimentary tape and gel transfers found in other books...

A must !

Transfers and Altered Images (Paperback)
Chris Cozen

Make transfers and images on almost any surface. Chris Cozen shares special techniques for creating exciting textures and collages.

You'll learn to transfer images with gels, mediums, grounds, and digital products from Golden Paints.

an excellent handbook !

The New Book of Image Transfer
Debba Hauper

How to Add Any Image to Almost Anything with Fabulous Results

Want something new to spruce up old crockery, coordinate household furnishings, or add punch to plain walls ?

No matter if the surface is metal, fabric, glass, or plastic, Haupert explains how to give everything from pillows to glassware to candles a smooth, fun, new look...

THE TUTORIAL...

You must first select a fabric canvas and a photo to transfer...

Image Transfer

1. I firts apply on the image some coats of matte gel medium with a brush, crossing the coats several times .. (This is not the image of the canvas painting ... I've forgotten to take the picture!)

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2. I return the picture and I smooth to drive out the air bubbles...
(You can help with the back of a spoon).

3. Waiting ... least 1 hour but the best is to prepare his transfer the day before.

4. I'm beginning to peel my image after passing through with a foam brush (or finger) some water over the whole image ...

Once the first layer of paper removed ... you gotta go very very slowly ... not put too much water and peel turning with a finger .

Here look at the difference between peeled and unpeeled image :

Paint and Wax

5. Collage of various papers with the gel medium and stamps applied with indelible ink, it is very important for the future...

6. Following, on this canvas, I've painted with watercolors, but we can apply acrylic paints, diluted or not ...

7. I melt the beeswax in the microwave ... attention it is very flammable!! I applied it with a brush on the canvas ...

8. The fabric seems very yellow ... then you have to heat again with a hot-gun several times ... so that the wax must flood into the canvas ...

9. I heat for the last time with the hot-gun and apply a stamp previously passed with some fat to keep it from sticking the wax to the stamp ... we set the stamp in the liquid wax and is removed when the wax is hardened.

10. For finishes we spread "pearls perfect" with fingers or a brush on the stamp imprints and that's the result:

Your turn ! ... I look forward to your achievements.