Glad you got through to the project pics....
good luck with it... I wound up having fun
because it was a learning process, enjoyed the outcome, and
considered
doing more... if I can find affordable buck
saws.. ha ha
take some pictures of yours... would love to see it !
Stephen
PS and thanks Kaitlin, too I see that the laserprinter transfer is
used by a lot of metal worker, and will be likely to try that when the
need arises !
At 09:15 AM 5/20/2015, you wrote:
Thank you, Stephen and
Kaitlin!
Great ideas. I'd love to try to transfer with the laser printer- will be
fun to experiment with.
I'm hoping to not have to do "the grid." But we'll see. I
really don't want to have to re-draw the whole thing at 3x4
feet.
Stephen's Facebook examples came through fine- what a beautiful
project!
Like you, this is for a friend. Ugh! 4x the price would be about
right...
I do have the water-based metal primer, and will be using acrylics. And
the background will be the bare metal, like yours.
Thankfully, there are no details beyond all the borders of the countries,
so I don't have to worry about getting lifelike.
You did a gorgeous job with those fish.
This group is the best.
Thank you.
marni
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:18:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: [SCIART] transferring drawing to metal
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Hi Marni
I had a similar lapse of judgement this past winter and agreed to
painting on a buck saw. I did document the
process somewhat in Facebook Photo Albums.
the pix are open to the public, but I think you would need to be a
facebook user to access them. the links are below
My project was much smaller , and in the end, I think I did some
enlarging , print out and cutting to trace the outlines, and sketching in
details with sharpie.
I am assuming you will paint with
acrylics.... I did some home work as
to how to approach painting on metal, and a good deal of effort is put
into preparing the surface.
If you don't need to remove rust like I did, so much the
better. You will want to use a water based
acrylic primer for metal , from a hardware store to underpaint your
work.
I you used OIL based acrylic primer for metal, you will not be able to
use water based acrylics over it... or so my research
told me.
In my piece, I wanted the patina of the saw to show through as a
background, so the priming was done "to shape"
If your entire piece will be painted, so much the better , you can paint
a big primer square.
trace your work on the primer after two coats have dried well.
for the transfer without projection I am thinking back to Amy
Bartlett Wright's mural class using a sketch that is grided off,
then creating a grid on the enlarged piece with strings, and sketch in
the contents of each square from the smaller piece,
square by square to keep the image proportional and fairly
undistorted.
So, just some thoughts... I hope you can access these FB
photos...
Good Luck !
I learned a lot... Like the next one will need to 4X the
price ha ha.
https://www.facebook.com/stormtreestudio/photos/pcb.376751405839777/376751072506477/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/stormtreestudio/photos/pcb.372353952946189/372353882946196/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/stormtreestudio/photos/pcb.365729343608650/365728553608729/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/stormtreestudio/photos/pcb.362954750552776/362953113886273/?type=1&theater
Stephen
At 04:47 PM 5/19/2015, you wrote:
- Hello!
- I'm not sure what came over me, but I agreed to paint a world map
onto a 3x4-foot piece of galvanized steel (!?).
- I haven't decided how I'm going to enlarge my drawing (no access to
projection, so maybe the old grid, photocopier, or printer...), but what
I'm more concerned about is how I'm going to transfer the drawing to the
metal.
- Has anyone done anything like this before? Any brilliant
ideas?
- Thank you! Any thoughts are welcomed.
- marni
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