How to Transfer Photos to Canvas

Join Mixed Media Artist Ashley Hay as she demonstrates how you can easily transfer your favourite photos to canvas using Powerprint Photo Transfer Medium from Powertex Art Supplies. Learn lots of artist tips and tricks for getting the best results in your artwork… This informative video will make transferring photos or your original artwork to canvas really EASY! You will be amazed at the results!!!

PRODUCTS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
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WHAT YOU NEED:
🎨 LASER PRINT (colour photocopy) of High resolution photo or drawing printed on 80-100GSM copy paper. TIP: print at your local printer the quality is much better that a home printer
🎨 CANVAS prepared with gesso or Powertex Ultimate Medium (Ivory) & allowed to dry
🎨 TOOLS: Shopping card, Chux wipe (cloth with open weave), Synthetic fFat 3/4 inch Paintbrush, Bowl for Water, Hairdryer (or iron) and a cardboard box

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If you love this you will LOVE Ashley's online course Photo Transfers & Mixed Media which you can access from anywhere at anytime. It demonstrates so much more than just transferring photographs... you have full tutorials for 2 complete artworks where Ashley explains everything from start to finish (with more episodes being added soon...). This course presents excellent value with lifetime access so that you can revisit the content again and again. To learn more click here:

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[jafallica]

Do you really need the music playing in the background while you’re talking? It’s very annoying.

[marlenehollmann]

I had difficulty understanding you because the background "music" was very distracting and unpleasant. Perhaps you could tone it down or do without it altogether?

[tusk]

I have seen some take from Magazines photo's that they did not take, and then incorporate to look part of their painting, without a lot of work, and then SELL IT FOR over 3 hundred dollars. That is plagiarism . You never mentioned that they could be sued, for far more than what they made seeing such COPIED WORK, that ORIGIONALY BELONGED To SOMEONE who worked hard to capture that photo. and all the hidden costs done to have it be presented into a magazine. It is their NAME in photography taken without doing any REAL WORK on their own. Maybe they should copy YOUR WORK and change it a bit and sell it . NOT a bad idea. COPY YOUR WORK and sell.

[Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter]

I did this years ago. It doesn't matter how you print the image. You can take any picture, even cut one from a magazine. It's the stuff you put on it that makes it work. Some of the comments complaining or even asking for you to hold their hand are annoying. I appreciate you giving this content to us free of charge.

[diedraaschenbeck]

LOVE the cardboard box idea for heat setting! 🎉

[nv]

Great clear instructions, I'm giving it a shot.
Small suggestion - you really don't need background music....

[kenromero]

Love the tutorial and your accent, but really, after getting complaints about the music for nine months you might get more viewers AND subscribers if you stripped the music and re-uploaded the video as an edit. Not being snarky just trying to be helpful.

[noblumoon]

I have no idea why youtubers feel the need to add background music...if it is just a demonstration without speech, fine...but if you are talking and instructing, the music is distracting, totally unnecessary...but thanks for the video.

[sharonstrange]

Thank you, Ashley. I found your instructions clear and concise

[lynxlady]

I really enjoyed the information and your presentation so I gave you a 'like', but the incredibly annoying and WAY TOO LOUD volume of the music was more than I could stand. I fought my way thru the 8:46 by pausing the video to take little 'sanity breaks'. If it had been any longer I seriously wouldn't have made it.

[heloneidaheloneida]

Your tutorial was excellent, but The music is really loud, and some people get annoyed with people saying this to you in a respectful way, as if it were an insult, and it has nothing to do with it, good for them that the music so loud doesn’t bothers them, but they should have compassion for those who don't have ears of excellence like theirs, anyway the quietest music will please 100%, simple as that. Thank you very much for the tutorial ❤

[sonogramgrl]

Great idea. The background music didn't bother me at all.

[perfectstorm]

You don’t say what kind of paper it’s printed on?

[abualaaalsharksi]

I have an easier and less expensive method that can be applied to a drawing board with a size of two meters or more. It only requires an image of the required size from 10 x 10 to 200 x 200 cm or more, and the cost is 90% less. It even has the advantage of being able to cancel any shape in the original image (erase it or replace it with something more appropriate to the topic). Thank you.

[aburningpromise]

❤ that tearing of the edges! Thanks for the clear instructions, I will be implementing this method for my photos! 🎉🎉

[CathArtistry]

This was so fun to watch, and great instruction as to how to do a photo transfer. Thank you so much for sharing this technique! And .. I love your White Rabbit & chess piece necklace with your very cool Mad Hatter hat too!! 💖

[IraQNid]

As an adaptation to this have you tried using water slide decals printed with a pigment inkjet printer or laser printer? It gets rid of the rubbing stage and possibly the coats of glue on the canvas and the transparent decal. A spray sealant might be a better overcoat. Of course the other option is to get a large inkjet printer that can print to canvas. For smaller letter/legal size inkjet printers there is printable canvas & fabric sheets usually found in craft stores. Use some tiling/poster software to split a single large image into smaller sections. This would allow you to create the look of a larger piece using existing printers.

[bgoldenwings]

Wonderful technique! Thank you for sharing such a great idea. Blessings to you and your family!🌸

[mazyarallohverdi]

everything revolved around the first liquid applied. this is supported by the highest number of replay on the so called video is on that point. She intentionally does not provide clear, concise and understandable info on where to get the first liquid applied. This just to make people waste time without learning anything applicable. disappointing!

[ado-ypnq]

Not enough expianatuon about this. What kind of paper for the print? What kind of cream she used on the print.? The box with the dryer ?