Hi Paul, Thanks and sorry for the shorthand. Transfer prints, also referred to as image transfer prints or printmaking, is one technique that's been developed by digital artists interested in combining inkjet prints with other media, but by no means the only technique I've run across. This involves printing to a transparency film, as one example, and then using an alcohol based mixture you wet down printmaking paper, or other surfaces, and transfer the inks so you can work with the image further: acrylics, oils, watercolor, etc. It's been great fun and rewarding for me. Hope that helps. Mark
Thanks for the blog. I've been considering something along these lines for a while. Does teh transfer process need to be paper or will any porous material work?
Any porous material should work. Also, non-porous materials too. Many artists are transfering to plastic and painting with acrylics. There's a Yahoo group called 'inkjet-transfer' with a lot of info and quite a few books out on the subject. There are a couple of videos I'll try to put online that might be helpful.
There are (as the blog notes) many many variations on this method. The initial print does not need to be to a transparency. One can print the initial image to paper. In this variation you coat the final substrate with acrylic gel medium, then lay the print (the paper print) on the gel and press down then let the gel medium dry. Once the medium is dry you remove the paper by wetting it slightly and abrading it off... which is to say you rub it off with a wet finger or sponge. The image that is left behind will have a much more "handworked" quality to it, with some areas that still have a thin film of paper fiber and others where the image was completely removed. Those that favor this method like these "defects" as artifacts of the process.
perhaps obviously I should have been clear that the transfer to substrate is most usually something other than paper in this method I have seen canvas quite often used, but really nearly anything can work as long at the acrylic medium will adhere to it.
There used to be a service bureau in LA that figured out a way to transfer print oil paint pigments. I think they used some old 3M laser printing technology to print the transfer sheet. They would then transfer it to canvas and do a heat treatment to end up with a transfer printed oil painting.
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It is nice Mark. What's a transfer print?
Hi Paul, Thanks and sorry for the shorthand. Transfer prints, also referred to as image transfer prints or printmaking, is one technique that's been developed by digital artists interested in combining inkjet prints with other media, but by no means the only technique I've run across. This involves printing to a transparency film, as one example, and then using an alcohol based mixture you wet down printmaking paper, or other surfaces, and transfer the inks so you can work with the image further: acrylics, oils, watercolor, etc. It's been great fun and rewarding for me. Hope that helps. Mark
There's a short blog post on Mark's transfer printing technique at Studio Artist News for anyone looking for more information about how to do this.
Mark, I forgot to get back to you. Thanks.
Of course, no worries, anytime.
Thanks for the blog. I've been considering something along these lines for a while. Does teh transfer process need to be paper or will any porous material work?
Any porous material should work. Also, non-porous materials too. Many artists are transfering to plastic and painting with acrylics. There's a Yahoo group called 'inkjet-transfer' with a lot of info and quite a few books out on the subject. There are a couple of videos I'll try to put online that might be helpful.
There are (as the blog notes) many many variations on this method. The initial print does not need to be to a transparency. One can print the initial image to paper. In this variation you coat the final substrate with acrylic gel medium, then lay the print (the paper print) on the gel and press down then let the gel medium dry. Once the medium is dry you remove the paper by wetting it slightly and abrading it off... which is to say you rub it off with a wet finger or sponge. The image that is left behind will have a much more "handworked" quality to it, with some areas that still have a thin film of paper fiber and others where the image was completely removed. Those that favor this method like these "defects" as artifacts of the process.
perhaps obviously I should have been clear that the transfer to substrate is most usually something other than paper in this method I have seen canvas quite often used, but really nearly anything can work as long at the acrylic medium will adhere to it.
There used to be a service bureau in LA that figured out a way to transfer print oil paint pigments. I think they used some old 3M laser printing technology to print the transfer sheet. They would then transfer it to canvas and do a heat treatment to end up with a transfer printed oil painting.