Our First T-shirt Painting Lesson!

We had two sessions of t-shirt painting today in spite of the drizzle and some of our class members produced some really lovely art on their t-shirts.

Here's the start of a wisteria by our class member. As part of today's lesson, they also learned about mixing paint to get the shades they wanted. When you're working with commercial dyes and paints, blue and green doesn't always get you purple - at least not the shade you'd expect.

Part of the lesson was also about getting the painting medium to the right consistency to achieve a suitable Chinese watercolour effect on t-shirts and the kind of modified brushstrokes to get those particular effects.

Another member wanted to try painting on a dark coloured t-shirt instead. That meant a separate lesson using different media. The dyes we normally use for white or very light coloured t-shirts won't work on dark coloured t-shirts so it was exciting for the others to see what would happen. 

Judging from the chrysanthemum on the right, it was quite successful, don't you think?

A bonus was the dry-brush effect the student created when painting with a very different medium from our usual t-shirt paints.

Join us next week from 1.30pm to 3.00pm for another exciting and interesting session of t-shirt painting!

Paint Bags and T-shirts!

Learn how to paint on cotton Bags & T-shirts with waterproof silkscreen printing dyes on Saturday 22 October 2016! Your t-shirts and bags can be washed and re-washed many times without fear of the colours being washed out. 

Join us at our Outreach Office and learn to make some beautiful festive gifts that you'll be proud to give to your loved ones and which they'll love wearing or using. And just in time for the coming festive seasons, too!

Day/Time : Saturday 1.00pm to 2.30pm

Maximum No. of Participants : Maximum 6 persons

Price per person : RM15.00 (Members) / RM20.00 (Non-Members)

The following Terms and Conditions apply -

1. Participants must bring one WHITE or light-coloured T-shirt of their own.

2. Participants who wish to paint bags instead may bring their own white or light-coloured bag.

Note : Bags should be made of cotton or cotton-canvas.

3. Participants who wish to purchase our bags or T-shirts may do so at the following prices -

    White T-shirt : RM15.00 (Members) / RM18.00 (Non-members)

    Large Bag : RM15.00 (Members) / RM18.00 (Non-members)

    Small Bag : RM12.00 (Members) / RM15.00 (Non-members)

We'll provide the brushes and dyes for every lesson where you'll learn one-stroke painting to paint directly with the printing dyes. In four lessons we'll teach you all the basics for painting four different flowers and leaves.

And...if you're not confident about doing that by yourself, we'll provide a simple template with every lesson and teach you how to transfer the black and white drawing to your own T-shirts!

Lesson 1 : Madagascar Periwinkle

Lesson 2 : Japanese Rose

Lesson 3 : Helliconia

Lesson 4 : Blue Pea Flower (Bunga Telang)