Transfers Tragedies, Nancy Bell Scott, US

[Carina]

Working with image transfers often ends in unexpected results, it's part of the charm, in good or bad. Nancy has come up with a good name for these unexpected results: Transfers Tragedies! Love your choice of word Nancy.

Picture above belongs, according to Nancy, to this tragedies.. A beautiful tragedy!

...and below a another (no tragedies here) great collage painting, by NBS,  thank you Nancy!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Thanks all. Will look into the techniques you've supplied and experiment. I haven't done any transfers for a few years and the reactions to these flops is inspiring. Seriously.

[De Villo Sloan]

YES! NBS working with transfers - I love them. Incredible things here!

[Carina]

...here's a you tube film on how to do a IT, perhaps not the best example, but..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSWxjDeWCqY&feature=related

[vizma bruns]

Found it Vancy! Janine's blog- Broken Illusions by Carina.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

You might be right, about the distance, Carina. Hmmm ... What you describe is the same as how mine were done, yes? (And by gel medium I too mean "acrylic gel medium.") 

Oh man, where did you describe it, Vizma? No doubt I haven't tried it because I don't know where your description is anymore. Help?

[Carina]

Thanks again Nancy, your tragedy is looking good, perhaps you only need the distance to see that.. :)

I guess one can do these transfers in many ways, I always use acrylic medium and are fixing it to a another paper/upside down - peeling of the back when it has dried.

[vizma bruns]

Tragedy? Pfffffffffffffffth.

 Have you tried the awful technique that I tried to awfully explain to you Nancy?

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Carina, thank you for the nice and tragic blog :--}   I think your picture makes the tragedy look better than it does in real life, how did you do that?  The transfers were gel ones done a few years ago:  coats of gel medium on paper with the paper (mostly) peeled off the back after they were dry for days. The edges of the text ones curled up and stuck to themselves; there's a lamp transfer on its side at bottom left that came out thick and dull.

[DKeys]

were the transfers done with tape or gel medium? they look great to me!

[Marie Wintzer]

I want my tragedies to look like this one