Transfer Images onto Canvas Arts & Crafts Tutorial
Edited by Doug Collins, Eng, Inukshuk
I would like to thank Astar's Place for the awesome video on how to Transfer Images onto a Canvas. I organized it into a wiki for anyone with a hearing impairment, or for those who just prefer to read the steps. Hope you enjoy it. :)
Hi everyone, and welcome to Astar's Place. Today I am going to show you how to transfer an image, any kind of an image, I am calling it a picture transpiring.
Steps
- 1In this book here, I've got these fabulous images.
- 2This is my most favorite edition "BAZAR"
- 3In here, there are these lovely images.
- 4I wish I knew who the artist was because I would like to pay homage, and thank him so much for this.
- 5There are seven of these that called the seven deadly sins, and that would look very nice gracing my wall.We are going to choose this image and put it onto a canvas, it's very cool.
- 6You need to get this frame.
- 7You need some Madge Podge glue.
- 8You need a little roller.
- 9You need a paint brush and a sponge, scissors and your image.
- 10I like to use a thin paper, the thinner paper is the better.You need to take your image to the photocopier and scan it, and if it's got a writing on, you need to flip it over so that it is in reverse.
- 11You need to trim it up like I've done.
- 12You can take it to go all over the edges of the canvas, but for today, I just want it to be super pause onto the canvas.
- 13The Mod Badge that I am using is the mate paint, and I think this is better, so I am going to open it up and break the seal.Now, sleeves are up and I am ready.
- 14Pour quite a large amount of Madge podge onto the canvas.
- 15Brush the Madge Podge all over the face of the canvas and do not leave any corners or edges.
- 16Smooth it before you go any further.
- 17Next thing to do is to center the image over the canvas.
- 18Make sure that you've got it even at the sides.
- 19What I would like to do is to place the canvas on a book.
- 20Then, using a roller, try to get rid of all the wrinkles by moving them around the sides.
- 21As you are wiping, make sure that you don't get any of that glue that surrounds the edges on top of the paper, and keep on going until it becomes smooth.
- 22That looks pretty good to me.
- 23Now, as I am getting to the edge there, you can see that glue started to come out.
- 24Get a sponge and wipe it and get rid of those.
- 25Leave it for twenty-four hours to completely dry off.
- 26Give it a time to make sure that it is absolutely perfectly flat and wrinkles free.
- 27Be careful, not to rub the paper with a glue on your hands, because once I made this mistake and the paper came out.
- 28Next thing to do is to get the sponge and load it up with water and wipe the top layer of paper, and what should happen is that the underneath image should start to appear in front of you.
- 29I've got the color coming through, so just spend a better time and make this nicely wet.
- 30Once you get to this stage and the image is starting to appear, you're going to have a cup of coffee and leave it.To be perfectly honest, what I did to this canvas now isn't like what I've done to the others, because I ran the water tap over them, and it was much easy, as I am such an impatient person.
- 31The time you run your hand over the canvas, and you find that there is a bit of something hidden, we can tell that it's ready and we should start the work.
- 32Wet your fingers with a sponge.
- 33I don't know how many layers of papers they put on to use, probably two to three fine layers.Slowly and gently rub the paper and keep rubbing it away until the top layer of paper is removed.
- 34The time that it will take is depending on how thick your paper is.You just keep on going like this, until all starts to come off.
- 35Don't rub too hard, if you do so, you will be rubbing off the image that you first put the glue on.Now if there are any air bubbles, this means that the image that you were pressing into it starting to left off, also that is an indication that the paper didn't stick onto the glue, and that it will not be able to bring your image across.
- 36For the area that I've marked it up, I just need do rub it really very slowly and gently until hopefully I can retrieve it, but I think from the way it looks, it won't actually matter.
- 37Some people use the other edge of the sponge and just rub it away.
- 38although the sponge does take it off quicker, but I've got more control using my hand. So just keep going into that until it's all done.Personally, I think that my hand is much better.
- 39This image is almost done because you can still see the paper there.
- 40Just keep rubbing it gently with your finger until you get the paper off.
- 41Sometimes that would happen because from the beginning you didn't apply enough glue on it, another thing that if there are letters in the image that you're going to do, make sure that you flip them around otherwise the letters are going to be inverse.
- 42The word of this original image is "last" but at the moment, I think it's saying something else because it is now inverse.
- 43In this photo that I've finished earlier, there are still a little bit of paper on, but it is OK.
- 44The other thing is here when I was doing this, I was rubbing it a little bit too hard, and some of the black lines had come off.
- 45I had just put some letters on the top, and I've put a lovely coat, another coat of the Madge podge, which is a nice sort of shade dull.
- 46So thanks for watching and hope that I've been of assistance, and I'll see you in another day.I hope that you've enjoyed this, I've enjoyed doing it for you.
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