Fabric Painting, PAINT WITH ME, #1 in a series, Getting Ready!

[Music] hello everybody this is suzanne in ohio now this is a short video just to get you started in case you want to work along with me on a painting on fabric so i laid this here for the opening scene and this is um a painted pillow front that i showed in my last video now if you didn't see that it's worth watching so go back and watch that video and then you'll know where we're going from here but i wanted to get you started in case you want to paint along with me so after i go through the little steps of getting you up and running then we're going to actually paint something together so this will be i hope a series of videos short but taking the steps one at a time all right so uh now that you see where we're heading then let's look at some of our parameters here and i'll explain a few things for you now if you need to copy this down take a screenshot or just go back and watch what i'm saying here watch it two three times now the disclaimer is this is my technique that i'm using for this project only this is how i'm going about it there's hundreds of ways that you can approach painting on fabric but um this is the method i'm using right now all right first you need an image an idea of what you want to paint and what you're going to use it for and so here's some ideas you can if you have a drawing of your own you can use that you can execute that into a project like this if you need some ideas for images and subject matter here's two free places on the internet where you can get images now the first one is public domain pictures.net and the next one is pixabay.com when you go to those sites they will give you a search bar and you can put in things like pumpkins crows sunflowers and any of those images that you want to work from you can either take a screenshot of it if you're on your phone or ipad or you can download it and you can print them if you want to actually trace a picture if you want to um just use their pictures to give you an idea of how to sketch out your own that's a possibility too that in and of itself is an endless subject but let's just say you have an idea you have an image and you're going to sketch it out all right so you want to sketch it out and then you want to transfer the image to the fabric and my suggestion is you're going to use one of these frixion pens and i just happen to have one in red i believe that comes in blue black and red and maybe some other colors now these are not hard to find they're actually in just the stationary department of of your store they are called an erasable pen but the wonderful thing about them is that the marks that you make with this pan can be erased with your iron with heat so i mark up my design with this paint right over top of it and then when i heat set my paint this disappears all right so there's an idea for that um and it's by pilot and it's called frixion okay and then the next thing you're going to do is start painting and then you're going to decide your style now some people don't know their style or you have a specific style in mind for instance if you go back and watch my former video you'll notice that i did one primitive style pillow front from my girlfriend so i'm not all that familiar with primitive styles so i just went on pinterest and looked up primitive artwork and just took a good study of how artists execute something to look primitive then you'll need some brushes now the brushes i'm going to use in this series are just a cheap set that i bought at joanne's because as i told you in the last video all my stuff is in storage and i'm going to go over paint brushes with you at that time when we get to that point because in that pack were some pretty decent brushes and others were absolute trash so i'm just going to tell you which ones i would throw away go need a cup of water and some paint and paint doesn't have to be anything special it can be any craft paint and what i would suggest is that you make sure you have red yellow and blue true blue true yellow true red and then black and white and then get yourself a brown of some kind and a gray of some kind you can mix all those things yourself but get the colors you want that's cheap enough uh for just about anybody sometimes you can even find it at your thrift store and then we'll talk more about mixing colors when we get to that point so let's back up here a minute get yourself an image and um let's assume that i'm going to sketch my own image all right so what i have here is a piece of freezer paper you can see the waxy side and you can see this right here so the first thing i'm going to do is get my image on this freezer paper now if you have a light tray you can use it or you can do the old fashioned hold it up to the window thing let's say you even print something out from the internet so let me get a little print sometimes i print things out uh if it's a free photo then i print it out and maybe i can just shrink it or enlarge it in my program let's see what i've got in here well i've got this chickadee um and let's say i just want to paint his head or here's a small version of him and i could paint a tiny whole body and anything i want so if you're going to use an image from the internet and you get it sized just right put it underneath your freezer paper hold it up to the window and just with a pencil sketch on your basic outline and so let's just um let me think what i have in here okay i have some holly now here's an image that i printed off this is another artist's work so i would never copy that but what i wanted to do was study this technique they used in the background which is negative space to imply the pine branches and i was working on learning that i thought also i would do some holly so let's think about the holly for a minute i just wanted to um this is another artist's work here too but this is a vintage greeting card so did you know that anything that's um earlier than 1922 is a free image nobody owns the image unless they have used the image to manipulate it and add it to other graphic arts work but if it's just a plain image off of a greeting card or old lithograph or anything like that that's public domain so let's pretend like i'm just going to use my printout as a study guide so what i'll do is just sketch me some holly here and not exactly um true to exactly what they have done and you can see there we have it a holly leaf now realize that's too light for you to see right there but what i will do next is after i get my image exactly the way i want it i'm going to trace around it with a fine marker and it doesn't have to be perfect i'm telling you because you're not going to exactly stay within the lines when you paint it anyway you're going to allow the paint to kind of work for you and the texture on your fabric will help you also that that method will allow you to get a very painterly kind of image and you're gonna like your artwork after you're done so here we have um our image on freezer paper on the paper side not the wax side and then what i did was take a scrap of my canvas and i have it ready and i can pin this on and go up to the window and get my drawing on my canvas with my frixion pen but because i'm not going to leave my workspace right now i'm just going to re-sketch that holly leaf right here and again it's with the frixion pen and see my little point here needs to be more pointy so i just go over that and correct it because all those marks are going to get erased with my iron when i'm done now holly doesn't have very big stem and there you have it so there's my basic thing that i'm going to start with so what i want to encourage you to do from this point is look through pinterest look through those two websites i gave you and go to old greeting cards if you have some just anything where you have some images and pick out something that you want to work with now on my pillows what i did was i specifically wanted oversized images i didn't want a whole bunch of little images because that involves just a whole lot of painting and painting and painting so i wanted large images and i wanted to execute them oversized for the impact on those decor pillows so get that ready now one other thing i want you to get ready is a painting board that was on my list and i want to show you what i did all i did was take a piece of cardboard off of an amazon box pretty good size about 20 by 20 or 18 by 18 and i covered it with freezer paper with the shiny side up put the shiny side up because that's going to resist your moisture and what you're going to do is that's just going to be what you lay your canvas on when you start painting and then you can turn it around and do anything you want to do so please get your supplies and things ready and then i'll be back with the next video probably yet today and we will start putting some paint on this canvas and boy things get exciting all right thanks for watching and i hope you will paint with me and uh if you're interested in seeing the next one uh please give me a thumbs up and leave me a comment thanks for watching

Channel: Suzanne In Ohio Suzanne Cogar

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Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021