How can i transfer a black+white image from A4 paper to canvas at home?

Question

I want to transfer a black and white A4 printout onto a canvas so i can then paint over the image. I dont want to use a commercial service. How can i do this at home????

Answer 1

There's a very simple way to do this. You prick tiny holes all around the edges of your image as if you're tracing it with pinholes instead of a pencil. If the image is the wrong size for your canvas you can always enlarge it on a photocopier first. When you've finished pricking the holes lay your paper over the canvas and gently dust over the paper with a little charcoal.

Answer 2

One suggestion is to apply a technique used by artists called 'squaring up'.

Place tracing paper on which you have drawn a grid work of lines over the A4 image. Trace and copy the image from the paper to whatever accuracy you require.

Draw the same grid onto the canvas with dilute acrylic, or turps/ oil paint solution. Carefully transpose the image from the tracing paper onto the canvas following the grid drawing. By using the same grid pattern you can magnify the image as much as you wish.
For the creation of a painting this method can produce better results by helping to avoid 'finicky' copy over, and not a 'facsimile' of the original.

If you can produce another copy of the A4 image you can of course draw your grid onto the image direct.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Have a look at the shops that offer online ordering of digital prints as some of these also sell kits to convert any picture to canvas. It might take some trawling around but I have seem them somewhere, failing this dont think there is any other option but a print service.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Another thing you could do is photocopy your black and white image onto a sheet of acetate and use an overhead projector to show the image on the canvas and just draw it on then with a piece of charcoal or an oil pastel.

Answer 6

Place the image face down onto the canvas and then using cotton wool, rub white spirit over the back of your printout (photocopy's work better) - it gives a really nice and quick transfer.

Answer 7

Assuming you have the transfer paper for black t-shirts (if not get it from staples, pc world or similar). Import the image in to photoshop or similar and outline the white lettering with a colour, then print and transfer.

Answer 8

Use carbon paper that is used in type writer and trace your image on canvas.

Answer 9

It is possible to buy a liquid fabric transfer which should do it. This is the only real example I could find on the net

http://www.omegadyes.co.uk/catalogue/miracle_fix_liquid.html

but I've seen it available in quite a few art stores and haberdasheries.

Answer 10

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