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The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media
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The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media

by Bonny Pierce Lhotka
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 43m
English
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16. Mixed Media Layered Transfers

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Fine art and photography have a long history of working together. Artists have been combining traditional art with photographs via silkscreens or cutting up newspapers and magazines for use as collage materials since photography was invented. I remember Robert Rauschenberg’s technique from the 1960s in which he used lighter fluid to float the ink off of newspaper and magazine paper. Now there’s a much easier way to transfer images using SuperSauce.

Best of all, by using transfer film it’s now possible to layer multiple layers of photographs and acrylic paint together, giving an unlimited potential to develop a ...

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