Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Transfer Paints

My friend and I got together today to 'play' with some transfer paints. I've used them before but really did nothing artistic with them. To use these paints, paint or stamp them onto paper. Wait for the transfer paint to dry and then turn the image over and place it onto your fabric. Make sure to use man-made fabrics as transfer paints will not work on natural fabrics. When you have the image positioned on the fabric, iron over the image using the hottest setting allowed for the fabric. Do this for a couple of minutes to make sure the image has transferred to the fabric. I always turn up a corner to check.

The painted image can be used several times, however it will become faded after a couple of uses. Today I wasn't pleased with the intensity of the images when ironed onto the fabric. These paints are a different brand from the ones I used previously. However, I will try this again when I have a project in mind. Here's some photos from today's 'play' session. In the first photo, the paint was brushed onto ordinary white paper.  When it was dry, it was ironed onto the fabric. In the 3rd photo, the image was ironed onto polyester satin. It's hard to tell here, but the fabric gives off a lustre. I use this type of fabric for my skies in landscapes. However, I dye the fabric instead of using transfer paints.

It was an interesting day!






This was the temperature in my back garden when I got back home at 4 pm. We are having summer temperatures in May - not a common occurrence in Newfoundland!

12 comments:

  1. Oooh, I've never tried this. It looks like fun!

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  2. I've not heard of this. Most intriguing!

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  3. Somewhere I have the picture of a quilt where the artist took advantage of transfer paints diminishing depth to make a star (or something)fade out a bit more with each impression......

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  4. Hi Judy - had to check out your blog now you are following mine. HofM (husband of mine) has fallen in love with the temperature gauge in your garden. He would love to buy one & was hoping you would be able to tell him where to get one. One thing, we only need the + side, not the - side but if we have to have both, so be it. Have checked out your posts, love your tulips, all the quilts you posted - looking forward to following you too. (Auchenflower to Whereever)

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  5. Chris, the temperature gauge was purchased at Canadian Tire Store. I don't think you have one of those in your part of the world!

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    1. Thanks Judy - will Google it & see what happens -maybe surprise HofM with a gift!

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    2. Hi Judy (again) - have emailed Canadian Tire Co & hopefully they will happily take our money & send one to us - thanks for your help

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  6. that looks like a lot of fun. We are getting summer temps in Saskatchewan too...but you never know with the May long week-end coming up it could still snow...LOL

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  7. I haven't heard of transfer paints before, but I can see they have a lot of potential. Good for you for taking time to play! We all need to do a little more of that.

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  8. Thanks for sharing your experiments with transfer paints. I used ranger transfer dyes to do skies on satin (learned that from Val Hearder workshop) and also used another brand which left more opaque marks on fabric but can't remember the name of them. They have lots of potential. Unbelievable weather - we're having a heat wave here in Ontario too!

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  9. Looks like you had lots of fun. I love transfer paints - you might like to try overprinting with different sheets and using leaves etc as a mask. You can get some lovely effects - I'll pop a photo on my blog.

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  10. Hi Judy. Transfer paints are on my list of things to do for sure! I came across this video for this artist and I don't know if you've seen it or not but she says that she irons it a few times, over the same spot to increase intensity but I don't usually see anything over dark in her work. It almost looks watercolourish.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK9uC_0Mb4c

    Love to see what you've done though and love all the quilt photos!!! Thank you!

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