Scratch Paper Blackbird from Claudia

[DKeys]

This really takes me back to childhood. I always loved scratch paper and Claudia has made her own. Love this piece-thank you Claudia! And it has legs, but isn't a chair!

[DKeys]

Hi Claudia, how far away is your son now? I will be heartbroken when my son moves away from him. I'm sad just thinking about it. I will drown my sorrows in art and cats. I used to do a lot with epoxy resin-very fun but talk about toxic and it's a mess to work with. if I got it on a surface I didn't want it to, I would have to heat it up with an embossing gun to scrape it off. that probably killed some brain cells. I just put something in the mail to you this morning!

[DKeys]

Thanks for the tips Claudia, I agree about liquitex-way too thin. Caulk just mimics gel medium and is much cheaper. I guess in theory, photo transfer should work on any sticky substance such as elmer's although much harder to achieve. You are really making me want to work with paint again. I'm really focusing on my 3D collages. I put them on canvases and always paint the backgrounds first. Have you done petroleum resist techniques on backgrounds? Always love the peeling paint effect you can get with this. your students are lucky to have you!

[DKeys]

a caulk transfer of a photo of mine made for the cover of my mail art exhibit. usually they come out with the full image intact, but I left it like this because I was going for an antiquated look

[DKeys]

what kind do you recommend Claudia? I love Goldens but it is very pricey-worth it but pricey. yes, common household caulk. and you will laugh every time you say it if you are immature like me:)Claudine Helmuth describes it here and suggests Elmer's but it's really simple. make sure you use a laser copy and after it dries completely (overnight) when you wet the backing it should peel off as a whole, but what doesn't you just wet and rub off with your finger gently.

http://books.google.com/books?id=dR7jBLo6v48C&pg=PT28&lpg=P...

[DKeys]

You spread a layer of caulk onto your surface-about the same amount you'd use to frost a cake. Put your laser copied image face down into the caulk (your image would need to be printed reversed), let it dry, then wet the back of the image, peel off, rub off the extra bits as you would with photo transfer and it's done. They come out looking really great. I'll try to scan one that I've done. I really need to get some more paint. It's been a long time since I used anything but paper collage materials and ink.

[DKeys]

Those things are good for caulk transfers too Claudia. My entire reason for getting involved in altered arts was to learn photo transfer techniques. Caulk is super fun and easy to work with. I need to get more paint to try this. The kids would love it too!

[DKeys]

How cool! I like it even more after hearing the process. I assumed you painted the multicolored background before putting the black on top. What a great idea to use the cereal box-another genius variation of cerealism! I will have to try this !