Berries Transfer. . .

Both the Layers of Color theme of "berries", and Saturday's Workout's challenge to use transfers, are covered in this one piece.  The berries on the left are a clear tape transfer of part of a magazine image. 

I began with a 3-1/2" X 3-1/2" piece of watercolor paper.  With a Chinese calligraphy brush, I washed a thin layer of blue violet watercolor and built up the color gradually.  Using a butterfly stencil, I painted darker areas of violet watercolor on the right, and stamped one of Christine Adolph's butterflies on top in black VersaFine.  I then cuts masks of the butterflies from a white paper napkin using the positive image from the stencil, and placed them over the stamped butterflies while I stamped Hero Arts manuscript background in Adirondack wild plum dye ink over the top.  I corrected the color of the watercolor wash, blurring the over-stamped image just a bit.  Then I adhered the napkin masks to the butterflies using a water-thinned consistency of matte gel medium, both over and under.  When this dried, I adhered the transferred image to the left side of the watercolor paper, trimmed the edges and mounted the piece onto plum and black cardstock. 

To transfer the berries image, I cut the part of the image from the magazine that I wanted to transfer and adhered it to a piece of ultra-clear packing tape, right side of the image to the sticky side of the tape.  I burnished the image to the tape as well as possible with a bone folder, then soaked the taped image in a bowl of water.  The image transfered to the tape, and the excess paper rubbed off the back of the wet tape.  When all excess paper was rubbed off, the tape with the transferred image was left to dry, then stuck to the left side of the watercolor paper and trimmed.

Have a wonderful day, Everyone!

Comments

[Godelieve]

Really gorgeous! Thanks for explaining how you did this!

[Sandy]

Wow Wow Wow this is wonderful.
Absolutely awesome piece. Love them.

Thanks for this great entry to Saturday´s Workout.

[Sue Smith]

This is a stunning piece. I love the water colour effect and the berries image is fab.

[Bettie]

Yes, we used the same stamp. It's my favourite at the moment. Your card is wonderful. It's so good that you tell us how you made this!

[Moni]

Fantastische Farben und eine superschöne Karte.

[Barbara]

Lovely piece, looks like you really had a wonderful time with this piece. Made me want some blackberries.

[claudilue]

Beautiful!!!

[aino]

Very lovely colours and nice piece of art.

[scrappelise]

This is very, very beautiful, lovely transfer and lovely colours! You are a very talented artist!

[Gabrielle Fabian]

This is wonderful Barbara! The transfer is awesome, I just did some gel transfers - with mixed results...
I shared this post with my Altered Start Yahoo group (I'm a moderator there),hope you don't mind...
Cheers,
Gaye

[Heather Wombacher]

I love the layering affect you created here so beautiful!

[gillian]

So much detail and techniques incorporated into this piece, its wonderful Barbara.

[Laura]

Wonderfully delicious artwork! I love the coloring and washes, it reminds me of purple stained fingers when picking blackberries! A perfect summer theme.

[Dawne]

lovely xxx

[claudette]

love the color and arrangement of images

[Lorraine]

love the watercolour background contrasting with the berries...thanks for the great comments on my blog

[Willy]

Wonderful card, Barbara!

[Lisa Renea]

Gorgeous!! So many wonderful details, love the colors, too.

[Rosie]

What a lovely delicate piece of work! I love it... and although you say you're not great with transfers, this is brilliant. Thanks for explaining how it's done, too; now those instructions make perfect sense to me - I just have to get some wide packing tape that's clear!! xoxoxo

[elliemook]

Wow this is beautiful. Thanks for sharing the transfer technique, think i'll be trying that one really soon! x

[Hermine]

Great transfer and colours.

[mueppi]

Wow...... diese Karte ist wunderschön!
ich liebe diese Farben!!!!!