NEW ART PROJECTS GOIN ON?

Cheers Mame.

Hi Mame, welcome to A2K. It would be great
to see some of your images.

Farmer, can you explain a little more about
your technique with transfer collage? I have only done transfers with acrylic matte medium.....very tedious.

How much mineral spirits do you use and how
clear is the transfer ?

Are you transferring to paper or canvas?

That sounds neat, farmerman, and thanks all for the welcome... I'd love to see your guys' art - please post some pics... seriously.

Mame, I have some early work posted on this forum: JLNobody's Painting. Let me know what you think. Vivien has a great website of her art.

You have to remember to copy your transfer in reverse. If your copier doesnt do that you have to tansfer it by laying the copy oto another piece of paper and rub the back using a rag dampened (NOT WET) in toluene or acetone (do this in well ventilated areas away from flames and for Gods sake DONT SMOKE.
The xerox will come right off and transfer onto paper like an outline. Then you can transfer this copy to make a positive, so you can either further ink the completed transfer or apply watercolor to make a mass of color (I like to blotch color on the item so it looks like a poor print). I copy stuff with printing so I dont like the final to come out in reverse. You could start with a practice one, just using a plain xerox knowing that its gonna be reversed on the final paper

Making large postage stamps aligned in odd numbers next to a detailed ink sketch of a wild bird makes an otherwise "Commercial" looking animal painting seem like a work of art.
You can transfer computer colored copieseven easier. In your print mode you should have a capability to print "reverse" Then, you can use a solvent like above. Sometimes toluene workds better with computer copies than acetone. Other ketones work also like Methyl-ethyl ketone (this is a lab solvent and great paint remover) The only problem with MEK, is, like and aldehyde, it can get you higher than a kite so remember to do this with windows open or like I do, Only outside and only in warm months. Some of these solvents are really nasty.

Id play around, sometimes even turpentine or nail polish remover (which is a ketone anyway) also work. Just remember

1 breathing solvents can make you dizzy and can even knock you out (remember kids "huffing" glue and stuff)

2 when you transfer, just lay the print side down and pat the back of the paper to be transfered with a damp cloth until the paper is wet all the way through, (practice youll see how much patting is enough and how much is too much)

3 Keep referring back to rule 1, cause passing out can mess with the art experience

4Ive never used that watercolor canvas so I cant answer anything about anything except doing it on a smooth surface paper (I like to use Bristol for the whole work

sounds interesting Farmer - post some?

I've got a website but we aren't allowed to post our websites on here (terms of contract) but my surname is Blackburn and if you google my name you should find my work ok

Florence is a very gifted artist (Goodstein Shapiro)

JLN as said, has some work in the gallery herem if it's still working and so have I, though whether I put paintings there or just photos I can't remember as it isn't in use at the moment.

I'll post 3 recent pieces








The first 2 are totally abstract and based on the Harlequin costume from the Commedia del Arte for an upcoming show on the theme of 'Slapstick' and the last one is a plein air landscape done in December or November (forget which now).

The blue Harlequin is on canvas and is 24x30ins and the gold Harlequin is 30x40 ins and the landscape is in a sketchbook about 8in. Oh and there's a painting of birches next to the gold Harlequin, also on canvas.


all in oil paint.

OOh, I really like the second one especially in combination with the painting hanging next to it, the trees. they work so well together.
love the colors in the third one.

i painted two things lately, in acryllics, but i wouldn't dare to post them here, among you painting peoples. i'll have to start a hobby thread. besides, i don't have a picture of one of them, it was a gift for a friend's 30th birthday and i had my camera in service shop.

would love to see more pics of paintings.

post it Dag - please????? all painters welcomed, no jury

uhhhh, just remember i am NOT a painter, ok? never had a single class and have done only about 6 paintins on canvas so far. I always doodled on paper and loved drawing with pen, but painting is new to me. Like tennis, I love doing it, but I am impatient to learn by practicing on scraps of paper - I go directly for canvas and what comes out, comes out...

Vibrant and well painted as usual Vivien! I love the first painting especially.

Dag= Your content is there, and the placement and usage of the canvas is excellent. Great work!

heh, just to learn how to shade so that the light appears to come from one source....

i love acryllics now. i want to play with textures -they have all sorts of funky gels that create various textures. it's gonna become a pricey hobby soon.

Aye, but cheaper by far than oils. Acryllics are a good medium to work with, especially if you're just getting started. Looking forward to seeing more work posted.

Thanks for taking the time to give us the detailed info re the process Farmerman.

I recall doing transfer prints from newspaper cuttings on lithography stones many years ago . We
placed the newspaper image on the ground litho stone, used some sort of solvent on the back of it, then placed a sheet of tin foil over that, and burnished the tinfoil with the back of a
spoon until the image transfered.

I don't remember what sort of a solvent we used,
but enough ink was transferred to create a lithograph. Wish I knew where I put my notes!

Im making fairy wings out of swirly metal wire, adding metal leaves and im gon hang sparkly deads from them.

Im rubbish at soldering tho.

ooh, i played a lot with wires. mostly copper wire, beads and glass - making jewelry mostly, but also bigger thingamajigs that hang either on the wall or, with pieces of stained glass, on a window.

want to master stained glass windows and such next, make a stained glass lampshade for my mom, which she always wanted.

Well done to you and good luck.

have a look at www.creativeglassguild.co.uk

Vivien, I can't respond to the first picture because of the effects of the light and shadows on it. But I've already commented elsewhere on your harlequin. I absolutely love your landscape. The time of day and weather is so vivid. Was it cold?
Dag. That's as good as many paintings one sees in Art In America. It is a very imaginative piece of surrealism, if you ask me. By the way, if you put your acrylic colors in matte medium (I use Golden brand), they will go a long way, saving you lots of money. And you can paint on heavy watercolor paper taped to a board, saving money on stretchers and canvas.

Thank you , jln. Sounds like a hymn to my delighted soul.
Well, I got to the acrylics by accident. My boss had a wife who was a fantastic painter. She left him and moved to Israel. Many paintings and supplies left behind, scattered through the grand old house they lived in together. I came to stay there for a week when I was visiting in Boston. She left two years ago and nobody has cleaned the house since. I HAD to. I'm a tad obsessive about it, plus I though it's a nice thing to do for the boss who is treating me like his own daughter. Took me close to 8 hours. She had tons of acrylics, she must have had 20 tubes of each color, in a huge pile on the floor. She's not coming back to Boston. I took one of each to experiment with. I reckon I'm already going to hell, so I may have some fun before I go. i know it was wrong, but temptation was too strong.
i promise to love and cherish them and make the best i can of them though. honest.

Your welcome, Dag. By the way, I don't think it is always necessary to treat light as if it comes from only one source. What looks most interesting and beautiful is what counts most.
Regarding your signature line, I hear the last words of the Buddha (just before his death) were "Oh ****!"