Image Transfers for Fabric and Paper
In-Person Adult Workshop | This program is completed
Saturday, February 8, 10am-2pm
Photography is all around us. Learn how to move photographic images onto paper or fabric, using paint, medium, water and heat. You’ll try out several techniques, using magazines images and photos preprinted onto a variety of transfer materials.
Additional materials fee, payable to the instructor: $12/student.
- Please see the instructor's supplies list below.
- Image Transfers for Fabric and Paper
- Bring a sense of adventure, lunch, and the following supplies:
- o 1” foam brush
- o sharpie and pencil, for marking samples (a notebook might be handy, too)
- o scissors for paper and fabric
- o burnishing tool: an old spoon works well
- o Images (see below)
- o fabric or paper (see below)
- o clean-up rag
- o waxed or parchment paper
- The following would be helpful if you already own them. No need to buy; I will bring some to share.
- o palette knife
- o brayer
- o Purell or CVS hand sanitizer
- o spritzer for water
- Wear old clothes or bring an apron. If you don’t like acrylic on your hands, bring well-fitting rubber gloves. Bring lunch and something to drink. And please bring cash ($12) or a check made out to Linda Dunn, to cover supply costs.
- Fabrics and papers
- Transfers work best on smooth, pale, sturdy surfaces. But what works with one technique may fail utterly with another. So bring a variety. Fabrics work best if they have been pre-washed. Note that any color or pattern will show through light/white places on your image. Good options include:
- • old sheets (available for cheap at the Goodwill)
- • watercolor paper
- • shirt or other clothing
- • cloth napkins
- • canvas, linen
- • quilting cotton
- • Tyvek
- • muslin
- • interfacing
- • rice paper
- • junk envelopes
- • book pages
- • recipes
- • sheet music
- Bring an assortment. Small pieces are fine.
- Images
- I will bring in a printer/scanner and some pre-printed samples to get us started. But you will also print your own images. Prepare at least one 8.5 x 11 page of images. (Cut and paste is fine). Your originals will not be damaged.
- Keep these guidelines in mind:
- o Stay small for now. Images should be no bigger than 4” on a side.
- o High-contrast images work best.
- o Black and white produces more predictable results than color.
- o Text can get distorted and lost in this process.
- o Small details, such as faces, can be blurred by some transfer processes.
- o If orientation is important, be sure to reverse the images before you bring them in. You can do this on a Staples copying machine. Photo software and some home printers also do this.
- o Repeated images are fine – they let you make comparisons between materials and techniques.
- If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at lbranchd@netscape.net
- See you soon,
- Lind Dunn
- lindabranchdunn.com
Linda (inactive) Dunn
Linda Dunn received a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Trained in fabric design, her work crosses media and explores change over time. “I paint and collage. Paper, fabric, glue, and stitch: whatever works, I’ll use.” More info at lindabranchdunn.com