Friday, August 13, 2010

Painting flowers, a nice technique

In my prior post I showed an example of a poorly done technique and idea about painting on fabric. Now here is a good one. In the video acrylic paints are used but you can easily substitute oil based paints or fabric paints that are guaranteed not to wash out. The artist in the video shows him painting on paper but his technique could be easily used on non-stretch fabric such as white linen or even muslin. Until you get that technique down, I would avoid t-shirt material for now.

Notice how he makes good use of the brush movement and color combinations. That type of technique is what fabric painting is all about. Now for the video:

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