Crow with Spots 2025

One of the things I teach when I do mixed media workshops is how to do transfers--meaning taking  something from one place--a photo, paint, graphite, marker, text, magazine images--and transferring it to another surface.  Over the years, mostly serendipitously,  I've learned many ways to do these transfers. When I first started doing transfers it was possible to take an inkjet transparency, print it out in your ink jet printer, apply a little polymer medium, smack it down on your substrate, and viola--it transferred. However, in this time of rapidly changing everything, it stopped working.  The formula changed, and we had to go to laser printers to do our very difficult, fingerprint removing process of doing a transfer.  Things changed again, other ways to do transfers developed, and as soon as I would teach one class a transfer process, the materials would disappear or nothing would work quite right.  Mostly recently I discovered, by accident, that Hammermill made a lovely double sided glossy paper for laser printers, and these prints transferred like a house afire.  It was quite wonderful, but short lived. When I went to Amazon to order the paper, it turned out that now you could only order 2400 sheets at a time if you wanted that specific paper. I ended up ordering a strange Koala Pearl glossy paper, and that's what I did Crow with Spots with.