Materials needed:
- Fabric crayons
- Fabric paint
- Brushes
- Flat items like leaves, thread, flowers, feathers
- Polyester cloth (shiny)
- Iron
- Wood
- TheMagicTouch Transfer Paper
Steps:
Dry transfer
This involves drawing your designs on paper with fabric crayons and cutting the designs out. Place baking paper underneath your selected fabric, and your design face-down on top of the fabric. Place another sheet of baking paper on top of the design, and put the iron on it for about 10 seconds (peek to see if the design has transferred onto the fabric).
Wet transfer
Direct transfer: similar steps to dry transfer, except that fabric paint is used instead of fabric crayons.
Indirect transfer: paint a solid block of colour on paper, then place an item (e.g. leaf) on the fabric, with the solid colour swatch on top, and cover with baking paper. Put the iron on it for about 10-15 seconds.
Digital transfer: Print an image / design on TheMagicTouch transfer paper. Use the heat press to transfer your design onto wood / a shirt.
Applications:
- Fabric print
- T-shirt print
- Wood block print
Documentation
using the paintbrush to create textures
dry transfer with crayons
my swatches
Reflection:
Transfer printing is a great way to ease into the module, as it is a fairly easy technique to master. I rarely get to work with my hands as I’ve been doing a lot of digital design, so it was quite refreshing to go wild with the crayons and paint. While creating the designs, I noticed that the paint colours were pretty dull after they dried on the paper. However, I was pleasantly surprised during the transfer process as the colours on the polyester fabric turned out to be really vibrant. I experimented with some layering, re-transfering etc.
Some of my favourite samples:
dry transfer with crayons
wet transfer with acrylic paint
combination of wet and dry transfer
indirect transfer
wet transfer. i layered a few transfers on top of each other.
