2. Materials

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You’ll have to collect some new materials for your studio in order to try out the processes in this book. These are mostly everyday items that you’re likely to have in your studio or home, or that you can find at the corner drug, second-hand, hobby, or grocery store or—in some cases, literally on the trees! There are a few specialty items, like transfer film, that you’ll need to buy.

As you work through this book, you’ll notice that we’ll be using many different materials, including surfaces onto which you’ll transfer your image and the transfer mediums themselves. Each of the items you use adds something unique to your artwork. In ...

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