So I'm interested in making a t-shirt using stencils and shit and I'm wondering what kinda paints would you people recommend?
Spray paint is to my liking, because if you want multiple colours they blend together nicely. Only thing that worries me is that how will the paint react when the t-shirt is thrown into a washing machine.
Other option would the fabric paints, but I don't think you can get those in spray cans.
What would you people recommend?
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Use fabric paint, don't use spray paint. Basically you need a silkmesh and a squeezee. Do the stencil in Photoshop or something, print it out, cut it out on a transparency and stick it to the mesh. Spread a little bit of paint at the top and just slide across the mesh ensuring that paint is equally distributed. It takes awhile to get the technique of having ink across the t-shirt equally. Enjoy doing it since I had alot of fun doing mine for a project
Spray paint works fine & is cheaper/easier than other methods. It will not wash off if you use enough. I have a couple spray-painted shirts which have been around for 1-2 years and haven't faded noticeably at all.
Alternatively, if you have a darker shirt, you can use a bleach & water mix instead of paint.
Permanent markers also work nicely for things that are difficult to stencil.. if you have a way of projecting an image on to the shirt or back-lighting it & tracing it on that way. Or if you just want to draw your own design straight on to a shirt.
Here is a spray paint & perm. marker shirt of mine, which I just happen to be wearing right now:
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(this one's been through laundry day 5 or 6 times)
If I'd want to spray paint or use those fabric paints on a black shirt, would that be possible? I would need red, green and yellow colours, but I'm not sure how they will look on a black shirt. I've heard that the paints don't really stick out that much on a black surface.
Yeah, sprays will sink into a black shirt.
Never tried spray paint, but screenprinting works really well. If you iron it, the ink will literally never come out, and you can get amazing precision with different screens, and exact copies of photos with different techniques. It's kinda complicated though.
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