Haunted Mirrors

After reading about the artist Jacob Kassay, I really liked the way he used the reflected surface as the art piece instead of just using it as a tool to create the piece so this probably influenced my decision to start using the mirrors as a picture.  As reflections were reminding me of ghosts, I decided to make some haunted mirrors.  At used a photo I already had while I was figuring out how to apply the images to the surface of the mirror. I tried using different effects on Photoshop to make the image look more ghost-like. I read that I could transfer it using gel medium but I was unable to get any.  I tried coating the printed out image in glue but I didn't really like how it turned out so instead I used clear self adhesive book covering.  I printed the image onto paper and stuck it face down on the book covering, then dampened the paper and started peeling and rubbing it off until I was left mostly with just the ink on the plastic.  I also printed the image on transparency and glued it onto the mirror.  In the fourth image I applied glue to the transparency and tried to transfer it onto the mirror this way but the colours came out overly bright and it was all smudgy so I decided to leave the transparency stuck onto it as it looks kind of creepy.

this image has a crack in the mirror but it didn't come out well in the photo.

I wanted to make the mirrors look old and tarnished so I used sandpaper to scrape the backing from the mirror (see the top of the mirror in the first image) and filled in the scrapes with black marker (see top of third image).  In some of Jacob Kassays paintings the edges of the canvas is burned so I decided to try burning the mirrors with a candle. I burnt wax onto part of the mirror in the third image but you can't see it well in the picture.  In the last photo above I used a template of a silhouette, burned around it and removed the template, unfortunately you can't see  it properly in the photo.