Using a Gel Medium, like Golden Regular Gel Medium (Matt or Semi-gloss):
-spread a thin but even layer of the medium on the canvas where you want the transfer to be.
-Carefully place the laser print photo face down into the gel and gently but firmly press the photo into the gel being careful not to get the gel onto the back of the photo. Wipe the gel off if you do get some on the back as I usually do!
-allow the gel to completely dry (I let it dry over night, drying time depends on how thick the gel is and heat/humidity of your work space)
-Once the gel is dry, spray the back of the photo completely with water, then using your finger tips begin to rub and roll off the back layers of the paper. This is quite a process, continuing to spritz with water and getting all the backing off so that the imbedded gel photo shows through. Once I've gotten the most of the white paper off and my image is showing up nicely, I then use a Mr. Clean Eraser to carefully scrub off the fine white paper residue left on the image.
From 'Do The Work' by Steven Pressfield
"When you and I set out to create anything--art, commerce, science, love--or to advance in the direction of a higher, nobler version of ourselves, we uncork from the universe, ineluctably, an equal and opposite reaction. That reaction is Resistance. Resistance is an active, intelligent, protean, malign force--tireless, relentless, and inextinguishable--whose sole object is to stop us from becoming our best selves and from achieving our higher goals...
We can never eliminate Resistance. It will never go away. But we can outsmart it, and we can enlist allies that are a powerful as it is."
Been battling some resistance these days myself, how about you? Here's to outsmarting 'Resistance' in our lives!
