Golden Matte Medium Image Transfer

All three manufacturers recommend toner prints instead of inkjet prints.

Golden matte medium image transfer.

This complete guide shares several ways to transfer images and photos to surfaces like wood fabric glass metal and plastic. The medium has a lot of practical uses and it s something i always keep around. You can view the first one here materials. Print out your favourite images from an inkjet or laser printer use a transfer medium and get crafty.

It s all personal preference though. Golden gel medium regular gloss or matte canvas or wood photocopy. The area where the transfer is to be set is coated then the image is placed face down and burnished with a bone folder or back of a spoon. Well actually 2 techniques to transfer images using gel medium so i ll show you both.

I used three image transfer mediums for my testing mod podge image transfer clear decoart americana image transfer medium and golden fluid matte medium. Golden fluid matte medium and regular matte medium can be used to lower the sheen of a high gloss product but the blend will not result in a completely matte finish. Soft gel matte is most commonly used for transfers. There are a lot of different companies that make it but i prefer golden matte medium or liquitex.

One is more along the lines of the print transfers i ve outlined above and the other will result in the image transferred onto the dried gel medium alone so you can use that layer of plasticky stuff to collage onto your wood etc. You can get so creative with golden s mediums. Basically an image is printed and cut out. Golden matte mediums are pourable 100 pure acrylic polymer mediums that have matting solids added to lower sheen.

They can be used to extend paints increase translucency and decrease gloss. For this tutorial i use golden s regular gel medium to transfer a photocopied image onto a canvas. For sharp saturated transferred images it is best to use a toner or laser print. Find a store signed in as.

Fluid matte medium and regular. Today we ll briefly cover the following uses. Golden working artist melanie matthews demonstrates the immediate image transfer technique using golden matte medium.