I was so inspired by this site that I had to try this technique. This is a picture of my first attempt at image transfer to canvas using Nitsa’s mod podge technique. I used an image printed from my inkjet (or is it ink jet?) printer on plain copy paper.
Here’s what I did:
I first chose a cool image from one of my magazines, scanned it and converted it to black and white. I played with the contrast until the image looked like an ink stamp.
Then I painted a 12″x16″ canvas board with silver and white acrylic paint and let it dry a couple of hours. I printed out some background clip art and mod podged it to the painted canvas. I smoothed out the background images as best I could with my fingers since I don’t have a brayer.
After 15 minutes I painted a coat of mod podge over the entire canvas. I waited another 15 minutes and applied another mod podge coat.
I let the mod podge dry about 30 minutes. Mod podge dries pretty fast which is a plus because I am super impatient.
With my heart beating fast because I didn’t want to mess up, I brushed the ink side of the black and white image of the man and woman making sure I had an even layer. In hindsight, I think I put too much mod podge.
I carefully held the image over the part of canvas that I wanted to place it. I set it down gently and smoothed it out with my fingers working from center out. I made sure there was good contact ink to canvas contact.
After a couple of hours, I sprayed water onto the paper until I saw the image start to appear through the paper. Then I started gently rubbing the layers of paper off. I think I was rubbing too hard on one small part because some of the ink started to come off. I panicked so I stopped where I was at. I left too much paper on the image which made the image look ghostly.
When it dried it was pretty hazy but I thought if I painted mod podge on it it would look more clear. Well, the image of the couple still looked ghostly. After looking at it for a while, I started to like the ghostly effect. I then really liked it when my kids told me it looked cool. 
I am so happy I found this site. Nitsa’s work is amazing and her techniques are simple and fun to do. This is the first blog site I have joined and actually submitted something. Hope you like the piece! Pat ^_^
