Category: HOW TO PAINT
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Top 5 Ways to Ruin a Painting
By Marion Boddy-Evans Not every painting is destined to be a masterpiece, but some paintings are doomed to failure right from the start because of one relatively simple mistake. Here’s a list of five easy ways to ruin a painting… 1. Fried Egg Composition It can be done successfully, but only rarely. When it’s done badly, […]
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Six Things To Decide Before Starting to Paint
By Marion Boddy-Evans Is it necessary to plan a painting in careful detail before you start, or should you let it evolve as you go along? Planning a painting can be a help as you know exactly what you’re going to do, but it could also inhibit spontaneity. Letting a painting evolve as you work is […]
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Make Batik Wax
By Rain Blanken Batik is a beautiful method of dying that can produce large abstract designs or intricate pictures that tell a story. Learn how to mix your batik wax so that you’ll get the batik look you want. There are a two kinds of wax traditionally used: Beeswax Paraffin wax (as used in most candles) […]
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Soy Batik Wax
By Rain Blanken Microwaveable soy wax is changing the way many crafters do batik. Soy wax is becoming more common among dye enthusiasts because it’s so much easier to work with than the traditional paraffin and beeswax mix. Here are some of the truths behind soy wax and how to use it in your batik projects.Why Use Soy […]
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Painting on Colored Grounds
By Marion Boddy-Evans Blame mass production for your inevitably being faced by the often-intimidating, bright white ground of a new canvas. It’s easier and cheaper to produce canvas primed in white, which artists can then color themselves, than to sell canvas primed in various colors. (Think about how many colors pastel paper comes in!) Unfortunately this means many people […]
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Review of Pebeo Setacolor Fabric Paint
By Lesley Shepherd The Bottom Line Pebeo’s Setacolor fabric paints are a range of 40 colors that can be mixed together and painted or screened onto natural and man made fabrics. They thin and clean up with water and can be heat set in an oven, with a hair dryer, or an iron. After setting, the […]
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Is There a Medium for Acrylic Paints that Makes it Suitable for Silk Painting?
By Marion Boddy-Evans The stiff but pliable, normal acrylic medium used in most of our paints and mediums is often too stiff for comfortable use on wearables. And, as any artist knows, once you get some acrylic paint on a fabric, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. But as it gets laundered the aggressive action of […]
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Fabric Stamping or Fabric Printing: An Alternative to Fabric Painting
So you don’t fabric paint because you say you can’t paint? Have you ever tried fabric stamping or fabric printing instead? The daisy shown in the photo was created with only four elements — a circle and a petal-shape stamp (cut from plastic erasers), a real leaf from the garden, and a toy wheel for […]
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How Do I Heat Set Fabric Paint with an Iron?
By Marion Boddy-Evans Fabric paints need to be heat set if they’re painted on something that’s going to be washed. The process is the same asironing a garment, except you’ll iron an area for longer than you would to iron out creases, and you shouldn’t use any steam. Set the iron on a medium to hot […]
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10 Fabric Painting Tips
For a small outlay on a few colors and a suitable brush, fabric painting opens up endless opportunities for transforming your wardrobe and your home. It enables you to create one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art (t-shirts are the most common) or to design some special cushion covers, curtains, or a wall hanging. Fabric Painting Tip […]
