Shirt painting is a lot of fun but you dont have to be an artist to participate. You can create fabulous images, for next to nothing, by using a simple dot system. Paints that dispense from a tube will make it even easier to create just about any image you want on clothing and accessories.
Find small bottles of paint at any craft store. The paints come in varieties like pearl-look, metallic and even paints that swell as they dry, called puffy paints. These paints, which are squirted directly from the bottle, make it easy for people with no artistic ability whatsoever to become impressive artists.
Use a straight pin and a picture to create most any image onto a shirt or other item. Coloring books pictures are perfect to use as a pattern. Lay the picture on the shirt and use your pin to make dots around the images. Push the pin through the picture and into the shirt or other soft object. The pin will leave indentations in the shirt and create the dot pattern. The dots should outline images in the picture, like pets, flowers, children, cars or other shapes. Take time to make the spacing between the dots exact. Each dot should be a half-inch or so from the previous dot. After youve made all the dots you need youll set the coloring book picture aside. Use the tube paints to make a dot on each pin indentation. Hold the tube close to the shirt and try to make each dot the same size. Use different colors of paint to create the entire picture. Make black or brown dots to represent a dog, green dots to make leaves or other foliage, and even yellow dots to make a sun. the dots, after drying, will form the complete picture. Although coloring book images are generally simplistic and easy to duplicate you can use other pictures to create patterns, too. Use pictures from calendars, posters, or even cloth. Select the images you want to duplicate and use the pin to create the indentations in the object. When working with hard objects, like a piece of wood, the technique is slightly different. Tape the image in place and use the pin to poke through the picture. Since you cant leave a pin indentation in most wood pieces youll use the tube paints to create the pattern itself. After poking the hole in the paper place a dot of paint over the hole. Push down when dispensing the paint to push a dot of paint through the hole and onto the wood. After youve done that to each and every hole remove the paper pattern. Go over each tiny dot by making a larger dot at each point. This technique works great for ceramics, hard plastics and even metal projects. Although its easy to create the dot pictures youre not limited to just dots. Draw lines with the tube paints to enhance the picture where necessary. Some lines can connect the various images together. For example, if youve made a little girl walking a dog by using only dots, you can use a solid line to make the leash. These simple lines can be easily made and will bring more life to simplistic pictures. Create dotted letters by using stencils to write on the shirt with a disappearing marker. Youll find the inexpensive markers at places that sell fabrics. Place the dots, evenly spaced, on the stenciled letters or numbers. The marker images will disappear after several hours but the dots youve made will remain in place. The dotted letters look great on tees, belts and similar items. Creating and designing tee shirts and accessories is so much fun. Many people who craft avoid shirt painting because they think it requires talents they dont have. Thats not true, though. Anyone can make fabulous designs on their clothing by using the dotting technique. Its easy and uses very little paint. Practice on an old shirt so you can get the hang of making pinholes and painting them. Youll enjoy this craft very much.
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