Chapter 1TRANSFERS AND LIFTS

Solvent Transfers

A fast and simple technique, transferring allows you to remove the image from a magazine, newspaper, or photocopy and relocate it to various surfaces such as paper, fabric, frosted acetate, drafting vellum, or lithographic stones or plates. Solvent and pressure combined dislodge the ink from the page and allow the image, without the original paper, to adhere to the receiving surface. Reproductions of photographs or drawings in black-and-white or color can be transferred. You can write or draw on a transferred image or on the receiving surface before transferring; you can sew into, mix media processes with, or tranfer one image on top of another. Because the inks are oil based and are not soluble ...

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