January 2016

Prints of the Print Press buttons

The culmination of Creative Processes 1 was a set of prints created in various ways:

1. Acetone prints: 

Laser prints reverse printed, then placed face down onto watercolour paper. Acetone is the painted over the back of the print and the image transferred by rubbing through the paper

2: Acrylic Transfer: 

Again a reverse laser print is used, and the print and receiving acrylic sheet are coated in acrylic medium. Once the medium is dry the paper is soaked and rubbed off, leaving the image on the acrylic plate.

3. Sticky back transfer

Not sure if this is an official way of doing a transfer, as I found it by experimenting! Sticky backed plastic is firmly attached to a laser print, and the paper soaked and rubbed off. The image remains stuck to the plastic. I coated the sticky side in a few coats of acrylic medium to produce a clear plastic image.