Wearable Art!

We've been having regular t-shirt printing sessions for members at our Outreach office most Wednesdays. Our art and craft group members use the leaves and flower from our garden mostly, but some have brought really unusual and beautiful specimens from their own homes to use. 

Indeed, our dedicated members have produced such truly lovely pieces that we were delighted to put them up on sale at our Garden Shop.

That's right. 

All those beautiful t-shirts you see at our Shop are one-of-a-kind hand-printed pieces of art that you can wear! But did you also know that we've been having little outdoor demonstrations of art and craft activities right in front of our office for the last four weeks? 

We kicked off our latest programme and activity developments quite smoothly with a couple of weeks of black and coloured t-shirt printing with leaves and flowers. From 8.00am to 10.00am, joggers and walkers passing by have been drawn to watch our mini demonstrations.

It's all part of our latest activity and programme development plan. For now, while we've been in the research and planning stage, the activities have been for 'Members Only' but we're glad to inform everyone that we'll soon be offering our latest activities to the public! 

We started off our Saturday demonstrations by printing only on adults' black t-shirts but now we also have equally prints on children's wear. Even those t-shirts coloured deeper shades than light pink or pale blue. So now, you can buy colourful printed t-shirts for kids at our Outreach office premises, too.

This morning's outdoor demonstration was rather different, however. Have a look at this t-shirt. Can you guess what we were demonstrating?

That's right. We're starting t-shirt painting classes for our members. And not just draw with a pencil and then fill-in-the-lines painting but Chinese watercolour-style painting! To make it easier and more enjoyable for everyone to learn, we've simplified the techniques to just 4 basic strokes and divided the programme into 4 parts - one flower or plant for each session.

Today's demonstration was on how to paint the butterfly pea flower more commonly known as bunga telang in Malaysia.

Next week's demonstration will be the heliconia flower, so don't forget to drop by and have a look. There'll be plants on sale, too!