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Lately, I've been playing with small wood panels for image transfers. The hard surface makes it easier to lay down and smooth over the transfer paper, as opposed to canvas, or just plain paper. This one is on a 4x4" wood panel (just picked up a few on sale at Blick's) and I did the image transfer from a laser copy. After painting the wood panel with Golden Open acrylic paint, I laid the image face down into the wet paint to let the image transfer happen. Just one color here - I'm kind of smitten with Golden's India Yellow hue.
After the transfer was complete and the paper removed, I painted over the whole thing with varnish. Gloss varnish delivers the best clearing of the paper bits from the image transfer, as well as overall clarity of the image. I like it for that reason, but it's impossible to get a picture without some light glare. Oh, and sorry for the stray cat hair - I noticed it after resizing.
The image is from a scanned negative from my Holga. The Holga is definitely low-fi.
There's slight vignetting in the corners and this little toy camera provides an easy square format, which I like for these little panels.
Thanks for looking!
After the transfer was complete and the paper removed, I painted over the whole thing with varnish. Gloss varnish delivers the best clearing of the paper bits from the image transfer, as well as overall clarity of the image. I like it for that reason, but it's impossible to get a picture without some light glare. Oh, and sorry for the stray cat hair - I noticed it after resizing.

The image is from a scanned negative from my Holga. The Holga is definitely low-fi.

Thanks for looking!