Re: Silkscreen bas
Risa S. Horowitz (babbleon@terraport.net)
Sat, 11 May 1996 19:48:51 -0400
Most art supply stores stock what is called "Acrylic Medium Gloss"
I don't know the other uses for it, but when heated to a pretty warm
temperature, one applies it in multiple layers to fibrebased photos, or some
photocopies and lasercopies which don't have this coating on it. once dried,
one can soak this is warm water again, and remove the gloss along with the
image. The result is then you have a clear, pliant rubbery flat mass with
image. it can be manipulated in shape with the aid of a hairdryer to heat it
up, and adhered to other materials (not sure with what tho). I heard of one
guy who made many of these into a shower curtain :)
That's all I know. One eve while I was printing at the U, a friend tried all
this, but got it all wrong and didn't have the urge to try it again.
good'eve
Risa
>>I did use the xeroxes for
>>acrylic transfer and got much better results than with the recommended clay
>>coated magazine images. Once coated & dried overnight, I let them soak for
>>about
>>20 minutes (so that the acrylic turns milky) before peeling off the back
layer.
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>I will keep it on the list, as maybe some other people have interest for
>these details:
>- What do you mean by "acrilic transfer" ?
>- What are "recommended clay coated magazine images" ?
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>I have a few books on transfering photocopy images to water color paper and
>textile. I have tried some with variable success. It all depends on the
>pigments in the copy mashines and the type of paper that one is using.
>Magic transfer for the T-shirt production workes for sure!
>Galina. (galina@telepost.no)
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