{"id":42,"date":"2008-03-31T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-image-transfers-mistakes-to-avoid\/42\/"},"modified":"2016-11-05T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T21:38:50","slug":"polymer-clay-image-transfers-mistakes-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-image-transfers-mistakes-to-avoid\/42\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymer Clay Image Transfers &#8211; Some Mistakes To Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/vid\/101\/90079.jpg\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Image Transfer\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Video #079: Special Feature <\/b><i>(Plus Transcript)<\/i><b> About the Toner Method for Transferring Photos onto Polymer Clay:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Probably one of my biggest strengths as a teacher is what a lot of people would consider to be a weakness. And that<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> is<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> making mistakes. I make lots of them and that is really the way that I learn and have taught myself how to do things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You know a lot of people make mistakes and they feel bad about that and they won&#8217;t continue on and learn from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A perfect example of how I learn from mistakes is how I learned how to do image transfers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/click-on-play-button.jpg\" alt=\"Click Video Play Button\" width=\"485\" height=\"25\" align=\"bottom\" \/><a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[ 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\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript>JavaScript is required to view this page.<\/noscript><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I had seen some beautiful work done where people had transferred photographs and drawings onto polymer clay. And I wanted to give it a shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I tried all kinds of different methods. There are many methods out there. Some include special papers which I had trouble finding. You had to have the right photocopier. You had to rub the paper just exactly right. And I was running into a lot of problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And then I found one method that seemed quite simple. And if it&#8217;s done right, it is extremely simple. But I still was making mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And here&#8217;s a big stack of examples of what I did wrong to prove that I had tried to give it a shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Anyway, some of the things that went wrong were things that the demonstrator never mentioned. Things like having the right temperature of water. If it&#8217;s too hot, it will smear like in this example here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I laid some parchment paper on top to bake them like I always do. And I ran into all kinds of funny smudges and things that I wasn&#8217;t expecting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you rub too hard or you leave too much paper on when you do the technique, you&#8217;ll get weird little splotches which the person who was demonstrating would not have done, because they knew how to do it right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So by showing you some of the examples of how to do it wrong, I can save you a lot of trouble and show you how to transfer a photo to polymer clay the right way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I have also the example of how to do it right. One of the things I wanted to do was to make some image transfer beads of my cousin&#8217;s new baby girl so I could give her a necklace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This will be a wonderful necklace that she can treasure and pass on down to her baby when she grows up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You know that&#8217;s the beauty of doing image transfers because you can do an exact photograph of your child&#8217;s drawings or of their pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I did some wedding anniversary transfers and all kinds of things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So it&#8217;s a wonderful technique to learn and I will show you how to do it &#8211; what to do and what not to do. You will really enjoy the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>&lt;&lt; Slides Shown In Video &gt;&gt;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Title:<\/b> Image Transfers On To Beads<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Book Cover: <\/b>Image Transfer on Clay by Paul Andrew Wandless. Book Contents: Numerous image transfer clay photos by leading contemporary artists provide inspiration. Includes decal, stencil, stamping, monoprint, silk screen, glaze, photo transfer beads and relief block techniques. This how-to book for contemporary ceramists shows you how to transfer a photo to polymer clay in your home studio. Light-sensitive emulsions to mark polymer clay transfer surfaces. Images of finished polymer clay photo transfer pieces.<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Book Cover: <\/b>Images on Clay II by Barbara McGuire. Book Contents: Polymer clay photo transfer bead projects. Image transfer clay, stamp, tint and color. Step-by-step photos and innovative polymer clay photo transfer methods. Working with polymer clay transfer motifs is fun and easy.<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Photo: <\/b>Eight polymer clay photo transfer beads showing unsightly mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Photo:<\/b> A baby face photo transfer bead where the polymer clay image transfer onto the clay did not go so well.<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt;&gt; Photo:<\/b> Finished polymer clay image transfer beads on an adorable baby necklace. 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