Refine your rubbing technique

Started working on my first transfer this weekend. This project has the potential to be quite messy.

After spreading the gel on both the wood and the laser print (by the way, I suspect inkjet works even better still, just a tip) you have to lay it down on the wood "canvas" very carefully. I'm not a super careful person, I will have to improve that skill for these. I had a few wee wrinkles show up, actually in my enthusiasm to smoooth out the paper I ripped it.  Lesson learned.

Everything needs to dry, you can leave it sit even overnight, but a few hours actually works too.  Time to start wetting the surface and rubbing away the paper.  This takes forfuckingever!

A little more image starting to be revealed.  Colour transferred exactly, excellent!

And even more still, oops, there's a spot that pulled off, this is what happens in wrinkled or torn spots so CARE is needed, I will be super careful on my next attempt. 

Still working at this one, like I said, the paper removal process can take forever, I will print on a thinner lesser quality paper for the next one to save on this workload for this step.  These wooden paint boards are great; cheap and just like canvas only not.  The harder the surface, the better this technique is going to work.

I picked up some modeling paste to start working on dimension but I don't think I'll do it with this one.  Probably the ocean scene like I mentioned before.

So what did you do this weekend?