Any plain T-shirt can be a canvas for your experiments. Armed with one can of paint, the T-shirt can be painted over completely, create abstract patterns on the fabric or apply graphic symbols. To make the most ordinary thing unique, use several techniques of painting on fabric.
It is necessary
- - T-shirt;
- - paint on fabric;
- - brush;
- - threads;
- - reserve for batik;
- - cardboard;
- - scissors.
Instructions
Step 1
Wash and dry the shirt before painting. Pull the side of the shirt you want to paint over the batik frame or hoop. Sketch the pattern in color on paper.
Step 2
If you want to make a colorful canvas without clear boundaries with smooth color transitions, use a free painting technique. Moisten a T-shirt from a spray bottle, apply several shades in turn with wide brush strokes and let them spread over the surface.
Step 3
To add a sharper shape to your design and limit the spread of color, try the hot or cold batik technique. In the first case, those areas of the fabric that should remain light, unpainted are soaked with hot wax (using a brush), in the second, the fragments of the pattern are circled with a special reserve that will not let the paint go beyond its borders. Apply the drawing, referring to the sketch and moving from lighter shades to darker.
Step 4
The painting, made by one of the above methods, can be supplemented with a volumetric contour - it performs only a decorative function and does not replace the reserve.
Step 5
To write on the shirt, use special markers for painting on the fabric. It is better to write a previously invented word or phrase with a pencil, and then circle it.
Step 6
You can cut a symbol, phrase or silhouette out of cardboard, attach it to a T-shirt, and paint over the stencil with acrylic spray paint. Usually, such a composition does not require consolidation.
Step 7
As stamps for a T-shirt, you can take halves of vegetables, which in the cut have a heterogeneous texture. For example, half an onion can be dipped in paint over fabric and attached to a T-shirt. These patterns can cover the entire surface or only a part.
Step 8
There are fabric pigments that dissolve in a large amount of water and are originally designed to evenly dye the entire thing. To achieve a more unexpected and interesting effect, make several "tucks" on the T-shirt, tie them with threads, put the T-shirt in a bathtub or basin and fill it with diluted (according to the instructions) paint on top. Without waiting for the fabric to get soaked through, place it on a dry, clean surface and let it dry (you can dry it with a hair dryer). Then untie the knots. In these places, the paint forms smudges and voids, which result in an unusual pattern.
