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Re: mineral spirits transfers

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Fran Marze (fmaiu+@pitt.edu)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:23:10 -0500 (EST)

I've had luck with using regular turps not turpenoid for some reason.
Doesn't work well on textured surfaces, such as canvas panels, but did
well on illustration board. I used it as a starting point for a first oil
painting and had the students work with the kind of "ghost image" as a
jumping off point. Got some really good ones and guess what? some really
bad ones, too. But one of the good ones was amazing! Fran

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sidnie Miller wrote:

> DEar Ron--You can use a variety of poison things to transfer--just
> put the pix you want face down on paper, soak the thing and rub the
> back with a spoon. If you get the right solvent for the ink it works.
> I've never thought it was too wonderful. I have used acrylic gel
> medium painted on mag. pix in several coats--crossing each other
> for strength. After it's thoroughly dry soak the paper with cool
> water and the paper will rub off the back leaving the ink in the
> plastic. I've done all kinds of fun things with that.
>
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