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!
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