Tag: painting
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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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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?
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 […]
