How to paint and draw: a blog about art.
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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 […]
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How to Beat Artist’s Block
From Dr. Janet Montgomery It’s a devastating thing for an artist to feel they’ve lost their inspiration, to encounter a creative block. But suffering from artist’s block doesn’t mean you’ve lost your artistic ability and it can be overcome. Dr. Janet Montgomery has some tips to help beat artist’s block: Beating Artist’s Block Tip 1: […]
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Readers Respond: How Long Does It Take You to Complete a Painting?
Why Ask? Give anyone who asks this, the answer that Whistler gave to someone when asked how long it took to do his “Nocturne in Blue and Gold”. He said, “It has taken me a lifetime to get to where I can even begin to do this”. —Guest Flora Ideas Progress as Art Does I […]
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Readers Respond: How Long Does It Take You to Complete a Painting?
By Marion Boddy-Evans As long it takes to be satisfied It takes me as long as it takes to be satisfied. Sometimes it is in an evening and some are still waiting to be finished because I wasn’t pleased and had to get away from it. It took me 5 weeks to finish one of my […]
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Tips on Painting Ideas
By Marion Boddy-Evans I think one of the most important things to do is keep receptive to ideas. Open your mind so you visualize compositions. You have to always be thinking about painting. I see something and say how can I paint this? If you only copy from a photo eventually that’s all you will be […]
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Art Journaling vs Scrapbooking
By Marion Boddy-Evans Exactly where art journaling stops and scrapbooking starts isn’t always clear, but there is a difference between the two in terms of intent. Art journaling is focused on the creation of a visual journal or diary using your artistic skills and techniques, whereas scrapbooking is focused on the collation and presentation of memories, […]
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