Use a thin coat of watered down gel medium to adhere the paper to the canvas.
Transfer paper for canvases.
Using sharpened pencil or mechanical pencil trace over your paper design.
However if you wish to add other three dimensional elements it s fine to continue working.
Transfer the paper onto the canvas.
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You can buy transfer paper that does the same thing or make your own with a very thin piece of paper like newsprint and charcoal.
This is a really nice effect if you do not want the bulk of the paper and want it to look like the image was actually printed directly on the wood or canvas allowing the wood grain or fabric texture to show through.
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Unlike decoupage where a piece of paper is glued to a surface and top coated image transfer just moves the image.
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Paint color fill in.
4 lift away the tracing paper and printable stencil and yours canvas should now have an outline of your drawing.
After the paper is attached give the medium a chance to dry before painting.
Put your paper sketch or printable stencil on top of the transfer paper.