How to Transfer Photos to Canvas

[Music] hello everyone and welcome today i'm going to show you how to do photo transfers onto canvas my name is ashley hay i'm a mixed media artist and this is a process i love so the first thing we need to do is we need to get something that we can put underneath the photograph to give us purchase under the canvas at the moment the canvas is just going to sag when we press on it so i want something large enough that's going to sit in underneath there so i've got a few books here and we just need to work out how many we need so that we get a good height and it's not too high on there all right let's get started so what we're going to do first is we're going to actually just tear an edge off the photograph i like to do this because it just creates a nice soft edge to work your mixed media up to when we turn this over this shape is going to be on this side so it's going to be the opposite image so the waterfall will actually be on here and the lower side will be here and the higher side will be there so if it's important that it's this way around what you need to do is you need to flip it on the computer so it's backwards and reverses when you do your print so you can do that very very simply on the computer so what we're going to do is just register that image just with a light pencil mark then we're going to remove it and we're going to put our powerprint photo transfer medium onto the canvas first and then onto the paper so we want to put a little bit of the power print [Music] out now i need to work quite quickly because i don't want this to be drying off the other thing i need to have readily at hand is a shopping cart and also a damp cloth so i've got those organized ready to go and we're going to paint this first then we're going to paint the face of photograph now on the paper i have to work double time i don't want any big goopy marks [Music] otherwise it will act like a glue quickly turn that over pop that down and get the shopping card and squeeze that in that's looking really good [Music] you don't want to get any of the medium on the back of your paper as much as possible and the other thing is you can see how i'm taking that excess off on that damp cloth that is so important because otherwise what will happen is you'll be putting the medium onto the back of the paper and it will make it a lot harder to remove the paper so you can see i'm really burnishing that well making sure it's really really well stuck down and i haven't got any air bubbles in there so that's looking really really good and i'm giving it a bit of pressure as well and giving it a good rub with my hand giving it a bit of love also just wipe any excess off the canvas there so now we're ready to heat set it and to do that we just need a cardboard box and a hair dryer let me show you so we're just going to sit this over the artwork you notice it's got a hole in the top this is a lot easier than holding onto the hairdryer for 10 minutes and we're just going to allow that to heat set for 10 minutes now that we've heat set the image what we need to do next is take the paper backing off and to do that it's really really simple you just need a bowl of warm water and a chuck swipe i'm just going to dampen that down in the bowl and i'm squeezing out most of the water from that cloth so that it's just damp and then we're going to just rub straight onto that canvas and hopefully we won't get too many shiny bits because if there's a lot of shiny bits it means we've got that medium on the back of the paper [Music] it's looking like i've got a bit of medium on some of it but it's not too bad so what we're going to do next is we're just going to take our fingers and roll that first layer of paper off [Music] look at that it's coming through beautifully so that's most of that first layer of paper off so what we need to do next is take our wipe dampening it down again in the warm water and we're just going to wet that surface again [Music] and then take all of that paper off of the surface of that photograph [Music] so that's looking really beautiful now it's feeling quite smooth so i can feel that i've taken most of that paper off there may still be a little tiny bit there so once i'm happy with it i'm going to now just quickly clean up all the paper that's on the table then we're going to put a coat of easy coat glossy on it which is just going to gloss up the photograph beautifully and also waterproof it and protect it from the next layers that we're going to do usually as it dries you'll start to get a little bit of a film coming over the top of the image where the paper residue is able to be seen so this is where putting our coat of easy coat glossy onto the surface of the photograph is just going to get rid of that little bit of paper residue and it is going to bring it up photographically and look absolutely gorgeous when you apply the easy coat glossy you want to do a thin even coat and don't go over and over the same area or you'll find that you get a milky film and it dries a little bit milky on your canvas so just be a little bit careful of that the other thing is that some of you out there might not like glossy and in that case you can use easy coat matte which will dry to a matte finish the thing with the easy coat matte is that it's not as waterproof as the glossy so it means that in your next layers it is going to absorb some of the colours into the photograph if you get splashes and things onto it so one of the real benefits of sealing it with the glossy as you're working your next layers you can actually wipe your image clean you just need to ensure that that layer of easy coat glossy is really touch dry before you do the next layer and there you have it our photo transfer onto canvas if you've loved this and you love photography and want to do more of this you're going to love my photo transfer and mixed media art workshop available online at ashley hay art academy enjoy creating you

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Length: 8min 46sec (526 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022