Acrylic Transfers

Introduction
Acrylic transfers are one of the oldest techniques in reprinting an image. As the name suggests you use acrylic paint to achieve this technique, the good thing with this technique is that you can transfer the image onto almost any surface. This is a really good way to make sure your image has texture within it.

How dos it aid an image?
The effect of an acrylic transfer is really as I said before, is to give your image more texture. By this i mean physical texture as you can doing this technique on clothing walls and any place that the paint can dry and not move. By doing this you also give a vintage feel to the image as well because the texture you give it makes it look like an aged photograph. This process is very much well suited to the vintage theme and to my project.

My Examples

As you can see from this image above that the process is successful as I have an image which is backward. This is an effect of the process as you are transferring and not copying it. Around the image you can see that pieces of it are missing this is due to the process being very delicate. As you wet the image to rub the paper off it is fragile and by rubbing to much to take away the print. This does not mean that you take away from the  image though, in fact it makes the image looked aged and more vintage.

Now this image is again well done but not fully completed yet though as you can see the paper has not been rubbed off properly. By not doing this you leave a milky effect and although it add texture it take the colour away from the image. This transfer also has blobs of paint which are still visible this is because by using some paint you it dries with a tint. But this is due to  applying the paint to thick to the paper and the image is left on the original. 

Now this last image is one that combines all the aspects which i have mentioned, apart form one thing. This is that how we trust this transfer. We actually think most trust worthy with these image than normal, this is because when we know that the original image is an normal image. We discard the way we think its been made as are more focused on the process and what it has done to the image. By having this mind set we as the creator can focus more on the way the image is shown through the technique and what it brings to the image. 

Plan

In my further shoots I wish to trial these techniques and see which will work the best for my finals.