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This is a brief article about the procedure for making your own

transfer paper. It will allow you to transfer a drawing on the front of the

paper to another surface, like carbon paper, but without the issues that

carbon or graphite present. Instead of carbon powder I use pigment, which

is more compatible with the paints I use.

First, for those of you are unfamilar with how transfer paper works, it is a

thin sheet of paper with a coating on the back that allows you to trace over

your drawing, and that will transfer those marks to another surface, such as

canvas or whatever. The coating in commercial transfer papers is typically

graphite. You could also quickly make your own by turning your drawing

over and just drawing over the back with charcoal or graphite, but it's rather

messy that way. This method is an improvement to those options, and more

versatile.

The issue with graphite or charcoal is that these micro slivers of carbon can

migrate up through the paint itself over time, also their dark value can be

difficult to cover with lean layers of paint, or lighter value pigments that

are transparent.

What this method allows you to do is make transfer paper using regular

pigment of your own choice rather than graphite. It doesn't have to be

black; even white pigment will work. It does involve the use of turpentine,

so if that material bothers you, bear that in mind, and also use proper

ventilation.

Simply told, all you need is some pigment and gum spirits of turpentine.

The type of paper I choose is vellum drawing paper, which is a somewhat

translucent and stiff tracing paper. I stir together small amounts of pigment

and a few drops of turpentine until I get a thin wash. After making a

drawing on the front of the vellum that I want to transfer, I turn it over and

apply the pigment with turpentine. I don't need to paint the whole back area,

just the lines of the drawing that I'm transfering, which is why I use vellum

so I can see through it easily. I like using a colored pencil to trace over the

lines so I can see where I've already marked.

Turpentine is all that's necessary as a binder of sorts. It's just strong enough

to hold the pigment but not too strong to prevent transfer. I've also tried

this with mineral spirits, which sort of works, but it's much messier since it

doesn't have any adhesive properties, and would be like using water. Keep

in mind, the turpentine isn't going to "fix" these marks you make. They can

still be lifted or erased unless you spray a fixative on them, just like you

would do if using commercial transfer paper.

Below you can see a small piece of the vellum with pigment painted on to

it using a turpentine wash. I'm using both dark brown and gray pigments

for this example.

Below is a closeup of lettering marks on the back of the painted vellum

piece above. You can see how the marks are transferred onto another sheet

of paper. The "DBC" lettering on the left was made using a soft lead (HB)

which in turn makes a lighter mark than a hard lead pencil (5H) which was

used on all the other letters. Both the "ABC" and "XYZ" on the left were

made with the 5H pencil, I just darkened the "ABC" on the bottom left just

so you could see it better.

Try this with different pigment colors. I hope you'll find it useful.

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This is a brief article about the procedure for making your own

transfer paper. It will allow you to transfer a drawing on the front of the

paper to another surface, like carbon paper, but without the issues that

carbon or graphite present. Instead of carbon powder I use pigment, which

is more compatible with the paints I use.

First, for those of you are unfamilar with how transfer paper works, it is a

thin sheet of paper with a coating on the back that allows you to trace over

your drawing, and that will transfer those marks to another surface, such as

canvas or whatever. The coating in commercial transfer papers is typically

graphite. You could also quickly make your own by turning your drawing

over and just drawing over the back with charcoal or graphite, but it's rather

messy that way. This method is an improvement to those options, and more

versatile.