A walk in the park with a friend

On Sunday the road was closed in Cornwall Park Auckland for the annual daffodil day.
Allowing the public to walk along Twin Oak Drive admiring the huge variety of spring blooms. So fortunate to have a glorious sunny day for the event. 

I spotted this guy from the French Toast Band strolling down the boulevard.

 

I reversed the picture and transferred them onto an Indian paper. The top picture I printed out onto

a cream coloured paper and the other onto white. 

Experimenting using TAP transfer paper


TAP is a transfer paper Transfer Artists Paper which can be used on fabric, paper, wood, glass, metal and clay.
TAP is coated with sprayed polymer which takes inkjet printer inks and other markers which could be fun.
NB It does not work with laser printers.
When heated with an iron it fuses  the ink into the surface of the paper.
This is just an alternative to what I have been doing over the past few months using hand sanitizer which gives the end result a more distressed look.
If you are interested in transferring without too much mess this book
Create with Transfer Artist Paper by Lesley Riley.
It shows fifteen varied projects to keep you busy.

Here are a few of my small samples which I did to compare with other methods of transferring

Print out your picture onto the TAP paper.

Place picture onto paper of choice.

 

Cover picture with protective paper.

 

 

Iron with a very hot iron pressing transfer onto the paper.

 

Peel off TAP paper

 

Cut out your design and use.

I found the final result printed well and clear .I could see that it has many uses but for me it lacks the character of the distressed look which the hand sanitizer gives.

 

 

For example

 

A closer view to show the markings of the distress.

 

 

 

A final picture using the hand sanitizer. Watch out for some more posts of these. I hoped you enjoyed taking a peek as much as I did trying this out.

 

 

 

Marsden Point Refinery NZ

Tim Holtz® Distress Marker Spritzer Demo at Winter CHA 2014

Lake House

Here is one of my acrylic pictures at the Lake House gallery. Just a quick shot with the iPhone, shows a lot of reflection but a record.


                                

Rust Never Sleeps

This week out and about I visited with a friend a scrap metal place.
Wow ! What a sight. Full of wonderful art pieces all waiting to be
embedded in wax ! The colours, the tones and the shapes. The guy in charged
was intrigued with our enthusiasm and allowed us to hunt for our treasures
among the bent and twisted rusty delights. 

                            A rusty circle

                                        My rusty haul !

                                    A picture in it's own right.

 



                            
                                        Rusty mesh hungry for the hot wax treatment.

Hi the clutter is going down it is so pleasing to see the junk in the back of the car on it's way to the opp shop but still a way to go.
Here are three more small encaustics for you.