I took this mixed-media painting course two years ago but didn’t have time to follow it though. Now I’m taking it again, and finding that some things are easier the second time round, especially selecting images suitable for transfer.

In my previous set of classes the images I brought to the first class had way too much grey in them. This time I prepped my images beforehand. Below are some charming weeds transformed into high-contrast black and white images suitable for transfer.

weed & corrugated metal prepped for image transfer

The images were transferred onto a gessoed and coloured-washed wood panel. My biggest problem this time was that I was a little over anxious to finish, and tried to do two image transfers at the same time. When I finally got around to removing all the paper I had this totally unremovable overlap that I could not get rid of.

weed image transfer showing awkward overlap

Mixed Media Class Experience:

• My first mixed media class – selecting images suitable for transfer
• I am frantically wondering, “where’s the undo button?”
• Mistakes and more mistakes (using my scribbles painting as an example)
• How to do an image transfer, method # 1

Our super instructor’s site: http://jeannekrabbendam.com/ On her site she has her work and offers lots of different workshops and courses.