Heeellloooo! Happy Tuesday AND a very happy Valentines Day! Grab the one you love and give em a big ol’ smooch!!
So, what is this whole “Tutorial Tuesday”, you ask? Well it’s something new and super fun that I’ve decided to do. I’m going to do some fun stuff and take step by step photos of the process to share with you! Some of it may be boring, like, how to boil and egg….kidding. But some are going to be fun and creative and EASY! Like this one, for instance. If you’re on Pinterest, you might have seen this project floating around but if not, then it’s your lucky day! This one is fun AND easy. Promise!
Last year I did a family session with the Coburn’s. Remember them? They’re cute. Anyways, we did these fun and silly little series with the kids that session and Suzy had mentioned getting a large print made of each of them. Well she’s about to have lil’ babe #3 and is just a wee bit busy. I knew she hadn’t gotten around to making these sooooo I did! Wanna know how I did them? Ok!
Step #1. Get whatever size canvas you want from your local art store. Mine were 16×20. Then print your photo to match the size of the canvas. I put mine together in Photoshop to make sure they were perfectly spaced and all that jazz, then got them printed at good ol’ kinkos. They say you need to have them printed on an inkjet printer so Kinkos is the key to that unless you have an inkjet printer at home!
Step #2. You need a medium gel. I used this one by Liquitex. It runs about $20 but you don’t use a ton. Also, grab yourself paint brush!
Step #3. Slather the medium gel all over the canvas. Give it a nice thick layer, this is what is sucking the ink from the paper to the canvas. Lay your photo FACE DOWN on the canvas. You want the photo (ink) to be on the canvas. Remember, if you’re using text, you’ll want to make sure you flip the image so that you can read it once you’re done =) Now, leave it overnight.
Step #4. The next morning grab a spray bottle of water and start spraying the entire canvas. You want to get it pretty damp. Next, start rubbing off the paper with your fingers. You’ll start to see your photo come through. Keep rubbing until all of the paper is off. You’ll find that your photos will have some imperfections but that’s kind of the nature of this project.
After you have all of the paper rubbed off and cleaned, you’ll need to coat your canvas with another layer of medium gel.
Here are the finished products! They’re pretty cloudy but I kind of like it. It was my first time doing a photo transfer to canvas so I might try something a little different next time and see if it makes a difference.
These make great gifts and really fun ways to display your photos! Try it out and let me know how it goes!
ps. Thanks Wynter, for being an exceptional holder. You are the bees knees.
Hope you enjoyed the very first Tutorial Tuesday! Now, what should I do for the next one??
