Painting on Fabric with WATERCOLOR paints.....let's have some creative fun with fabric

hello everybody welcome to thursday today is june the 11th hello everybody today we're gonna have some haphazard fun with some watercolor paints and some fabric i'm gonna walk you through a couple of testing results that i've done prior to doing this live today we're going to go over a couple of different things that i have already figured out there's still some things that i would like to experiment with this but i've done some prior experimenting and we'll go over those results here in a minute because i already know so many people are going to ask me can you do this and put it into a quilt or could you do it on a garment and wash the garment and have the paint stay so i've done some experimenting we're going to go over all that fun stuff and then we're just going to spend some creative time doing a little watercolor painting on some fabric hello everybody so great to see you we are live if you're catching this on the replay uh and you just want to get to the good stuff where we are painting feel free to skip forward i'll try to remember to put a timestamp down in the description box so you could just skip past all the chit chat if you want or you could stay here for the whole time it's totally up to you i do have three links down in the description box below and uh those three links are for color book pages free color book pages that i have used in experimenting with watercolors on fabric and the link for the free color book page that we're going to use today so if you want to grab these they are linked in the description box but if you do a google search for free color book pages i think you could spend a week going through all of the results there are thousands of free color book pages out there that you could print off and do your own experimenting with or your own projects lots and lots of free color book pages hello everybody it's so great to see you so great to see i miss seeing y'all every day i do i still have a bit of a headache today it's better yesterday was not a good day today is better but i still have a little bit of a headache how are y'all doing how is everybody doing i'm so glad you're gonna spend a little bit of time with me today you know uh i like to experiment i like to experiment with my quilts i like to experiment with different mediums in all genres of crafting so uh you know i i've done videos on fabric paints that you can buy that are already for formulated to stay permanently in your fabric i have a couple of those videos here on my channel and i also have some inktense pencil videos where you use the inktense pencils on fabric and it's permanent and it stays in i've always wondered about watercolor paints and so i've been doing some experimenting jeannie it may be we have some rain moving into our area for the next couple of days and it might be the weather it might also be hormones i don't know for sure just throwing that out there but yeah oh yesterday it was not good it was not a good day yesterday today is better i'm so thankful because i did not want to have to cancel this and cancel our time together today thank you thank you linda thank you valerie you're watching the show from the doctor's office hopefully it's just a wellness checkup and you're not feeling bad i hope ella you're waiting on your back surgery keep us updated on that thank you valerie thank you i gave myself a haircut about a week ago it's almost time for another one it's so great to see everybody so let's just uh oh genie that's when you get headaches too yeah yeah it's not fun is it peggy if you do have security measures set up on your computer or the device that you're using to download those pictures two of them are links to pinterest and uh i was able i downloaded from the exact links that i'm sharing in the description box and i have not had any issues the other one was from a website called momjunction.com i think that's where the draft came from uh and uh that was a pretty a very legit website and she has a lot of stuff on her website that you could download as well momjunction.com the other two were from pinterest and you can download it directly if you when you click on the link the pinterest links uh the picture pops up on the left and then you have some stuff on the right and if you look right next to the picture to the right at the top there's like three little dots if you click on the three little dots a menu will pop up and you can download directly from there so yes that's where i got those links but you can also do a google search and scroll through until you find some sources that uh that you are comfortable with for certain or you could just take a fabric marker and doodle on some fabric and make your own drawing right i think that's a lot of fun there's so many possibilities that you could do with this uh but i did want to share the links for the free things that i found that i'm going to show in today's video let me move over because i want to show you before we jump in here we go this is what we're going to be doing today lila i absolutely think that this is something that uh the kids could help you with watercolor paints and i'll be showing you more details here in a minute watercolor paints these say that they are non-toxic my only warning would be the fabric medium that i use is called uh golden gac 900 it is a heat set heat set fabric painting medium this one has some warnings on the back okay uh it contains from formaldehyde uh and so i'm not really sure that this is uh non-toxic it does have a great big use in a well-ventilated area stamp on the back uh but this is not the only fabric medium that's out there so you could do some research and find out some non-toxic um fabric mediums to mix with your watercolor paints to help them set in fabric if you want to do this on a project that's going to get washed if you are just creating like a wall quilt uh something that's gonna get framed and hung on the wall or an art quilt and you don't plan on washing this then you don't have to use this at all so you could just give the kids some watercolor paints some water and paint brushes let them have fun on fabric and then just hang it up on your wall right you don't have to use this if you don't plan on washing it we'll go over that in just a minute but here was my first example uh i traced the giraffe uh that link is down in the description box and then i just drew a little doodle border around it and painted this in this has been washed uh one two times i'm going to show you the results and how i did that in just a second but how cute is that and it is super soft it feels like there's nothing on this at all uh and i quilted this after it was washed okay so it's been quilted it's ready for a back and a little binding that was my first experiment and then i did the little owl how cute is that she's so cute and uh there is a link for the owl in the description box as well let me fix this camera so it doesn't keep trying to focus hold on one second i meant to do that before we started give me just a second i even have a little sticker up that says make sure to turn off the automatic zoom and i did not do it all right there we go so hopefully it won't be zooming in and out on my hand ella you have me on the big screen oh my goodness hello i want to thank my moderators thank you so much for just keeping an eye on the chat and making sure that everything runs smoothly i appreciate you so much so this is the owl and this one was done a little bit differently than the giraffe but i wanted to start off by showing you in person because i'm going to pull some photos up here on the screen of the testing that i did but aren't they cute aren't they really cute these were done with watercolor paints watercolor paints so let me show you some examples and um go through my process a little bit with the giraffe when i did the giraffe you all know that most of the time i do not pre-wash my fabric [Laughter] before i just dive in and start doing any of my projects so the giraffe was done with 100 cotton muslin that was not pre-washed i just cut a piece off traced my giraffe and went to town painting i did use the gac uh 900 fabric medium with my painting and then i heat set the giraffe with an iron and so the instructions on the back you can use an iron or a heat press with the iron you heat press it for three to five minutes with a medium heat just letting you know i used the cotton setting on my iron because i was i painted on cotton so i used the cotton setting and uh heat set it with my iron for about three minutes and then i threw him through the washer and the dryer you'll see uh the original all the way on the left after the first wash i washed it in hot water and uh dried it on the normal setting in the dryer so you'll see after the first wash i took a picture and then my next little laundry i threw it in again washed it again in hot water and dried it in the normal dryer setting so you can see after two washes the amount of fading that there was and this is this is it in real life how much pigment is still left in the fabric and it's super soft it's been washed twice now i put this through a hot wash but just to be transparent and honest with you if i wanted to wash something that i've painted on or screen printed on i would probably wash it in a cold water setting and i think there would have been even less fading if i washed it in a cold water i wanted to really test these paints and so i used the hot water twice so that's where we are with that now i will say before i washed it there was a little bit of tooth to the fabric because of the paints and so i waited until it was after i washed it to quilt it and it quilted fine it feels just like the normal regular fabric it doesn't feel like there's anything on it before it was washed it did have a little bit of tooth and i think that maybe if i was using a delicate thread to quilt it with that i might have had some thread breaking issues so if you want to quilt it and not wash your project when you're done i recommend quilting first and then painting if you're going to wash it you might want to wash it and then quilt it no there is no stabilizer on the back uh i just quilted it with a batting and i'm just gonna throw a solid piece on the back and do a little binding you could make your three layers and quilt through all three layers but um yeah all my quilting on the back that's just the batting no stabilizer just a batting and uh i put that on when i did the quilting i will cover up all of my quilting when i'm done so there's how i did the giraffe and you can see the results turned out pretty good even though i did not pre-wash the fabric first then when i did the owl let me pull that up here is the owl before and after that's this one right here for the owl i went ahead and threw the fabric through the wash before i ever traced or painted this little owl and i do think it made a little bit of a difference i also used different watercolor paints and i'll show you those here in a second but they were watercolor this again is a muslin i used the same fabric medium as before this one i used my heat press and i set it for 60 seconds at 300 degrees fahrenheit and uh those instructions are on the back of the bottle that let you know and uh so yeah i did this one with the heat press and i think there was very minimal fading with this one and i don't know if it was because um of the heat press or because i pre-washed the fabrics but my guess is because it was pre-washed fabric that i started with i had a little less fading but both of them i was really happy with the results of both of them to be honest it's so great to see do you use a paintbrush yep i'm going to show you an assortment of cheap paint brushes that i have and uh so you'll see those here in a second what is a heat press uh a heat press is like it's like an iron except it's a great big plate square plate they come in all different sizes you can set the temperature to an exact temperature and it presses a garment or fabric and distributes an even amount of heat throughout the entire pressing plate so um i do show you my heat press in a couple of my videos um but yeah you can pull it up on youtube type in what is a heat press and you'll see exactly what it is and how useful they are and i use mine all the time now for uh putting interfacing on the backside of t-shirts when i do t-shirt quilts and for heat setting are projects like this but you could use your iron as well can you use the dabbers oh you might be able to barbara i don't know i've never tried it i don't know i think this method lends to lots of different experimenting with different techniques uh watercolors you know watercolor painting is so versatile you can do so much with watercolors like using salt to get some really neat effects with watercolors and i don't know if if it reacts the same way on fabric but i think there's so many different things out there to experiment with still oh yeah genie you have a qriket easy press yes works exactly the same way you always forget youtube can tell you things like that yeah it'll be much more of an accurate description if you search it up versus what i can explain and it's way too heavy for me to go pick it up and bring it over here to show you it does weigh a small ton it does so those are my experiments pre-washing and not pre-washing using a heat press using an iron and uh yeah i am thrilled with the results using the watercolor and one of the things that i love to do you know i don't mind spending good hard earned money for quality products that really work but i've also always tried to do my projects on a budget and look for different cheaper alternative ways to achieve a desirable result and so i'm always searching and experimenting different mediums different techniques and just looking for results that i really like and save some money at the same time and so watercolors are a great alternative uh and that's what we're using today ooh mimsy said rubbing alcohol works great with watercolors too i did not know that vicky you got a baby lock jazz too sewing machine vicky that's so exciting that's so exciting congratulations i hope you love it i hope there's lots of sewing in your future that is exciting i'm so happy for you all right so let's go ahead and switch down to my mat i've shown you my experiments and now we're just going to have some haphazard fun just creative fun and i hope you stick around and watch if you're like me i love to watch videos where they're doing a process like this and uh if you have any questions if you put them in all caps that might be easier for me to see them and hopefully i don't miss them but if i do you might just repeat the question and uh yeah if i if i know the answers i would love to help wow it has a 12 inch throat that is a good that is a good space i see some quilting in your future vicky do you still come on daily no since uh since virginia went into phase one uh like a couple weeks ago i've stopped coming on youtube daily because people are starting to go back to work and things are transitioning back to some sort of norma it's not normal right it's not normal but we're starting to transition back to where a lot of people are at work during the day i know a lot of people are still home during the day but i've started to transition and i'll be doing at least one live here on youtube during the day during the week more if i have more things to show but not daily that was a lot of work that was a lot of work anitra used gelettos in a floating medium in combination with applique and free motion quilting to make a small pillow for a daughter's teacher she and i painted it together i have um oh they're not gelettos they're the tim holtz distress crayons i wonder if those are the same or kind of the same maybe not i've watched a lot of geletto a lot of gelato videos here on youtube and they are amazing that sounds like a really fun project linda says we had withdrawal i know me too i do miss talking to everybody every day i do miss that a lot hello sue yeah you'll want to catch up because i just went over the experiments up to this point i did some experimenting with the watercolors and some washing to find out some results and uh that's what you've missed so far so you could go back and catch that when we're all done all right miss pat yep you'll have to come back and watch the replay i miss you too i miss you too all right let's go ahead and switch the screen over i'm gonna show you my mat and my setup here okay uh i do not put anti any uh interfacing on the back side of my fabric and i'm going to show you my fabric here in a second uh you could fuse some freezer paper to the back side of your fabric to sort of stabilize it while you're painting or tracing you could do that but i'm going to show you what i like to do i have a portable design wall i have a video on this it's just a piece of styrofoam and a flannel pillowcase that's all this is but see uh the pins stick in it that's what i'm gonna use to pin my fabric down into place so it doesn't move around it's just a piece of styrofoam that i have put into a flannel pillowcase it works great and then i just have a teflon sheet just so that my wet fabric doesn't stain up my nice and pretty flannel it's just going to protect my work surface but i can still put pins right through there and hold my fabric in place all right and then we're going to be using this image that i found it's a free color book page there is a link down in the description box below and you can go and print that out if you want to use this image ah the distress crayons are a little more waxy than the gelatos i did not know that that's good to know thank you i have several sets of distressed crayons that my mom gave me and i have not used them yet those they're one of the things that i like to look at but i don't want to use up i need to break them out and use them all right so here's my uh image that we're using the fabric i'm using today has been pre-washed this was like a medium grade cotton muslin when you go into i got it from joanne fabrics when you go into joann fabrics and you go to the muslin section if you start looking at the end of the bolts you'll see a price range from really cheap muslin price wise to really pricey muslin right this was in the middle and and i wish i would have taken a picture of the end of the bolt for the fabric but at the time when i bought this i didn't even think about making this video and i did not do it but it was a mid level muslin fabric it's got a really smooth feel to it when you run your fingertips across it you don't feel the weaves of the fabric and um so that's what this is it's just a white muslin cotton it's all cotton i do want to do some experimenting with a cotton poly blend you know when you do sublimation work uh it's really important to have that blend of polyester in there and so i'm i'm wanting to do some experimenting with a cotton poly blend to see if it doesn't hold the colors more permanently in the end but that's down the road when i go back what is the difference between distress and gelato and crayola crayons i wish i could get up and go get my distressed crayons maybe i'll show that in a future video what i would do sue is do some searching on youtube because they actually show you demonstrations of them uh i do know crayola crayons are harder and uh just messing with my distress crayons just a little bit they are soft and you can blend the medium with your fingers or and stuff like that so i know there's that difference so i have my cotton muslin i have already pre-washed this so i'm just going to lay that right over top of our image and you can kind of see right through there i have some raw edge strings from when i've pre-washed it it probably should get a quick press but i'm just going to leave the wrinkles in there and i'm just going to pin this in place so it doesn't move while i do my tracing kind of center that right in the middle just like that that's good i'm just gonna throw a couple pins in there and that's gonna hold it in place if you ever get uh a new toy in the mail or buy like uh something at walmart and it comes with styrofoam in the box pull that styrofoam out and make yourself a little board like this one it comes in so handy i use it as a little portable design wall but it's also really great for things like this sometimes when i use uh freezer paper on the back of something that i'm tracing or painting i noticed that sometimes it'll lift off of the freezer paper and this just stays right in place and that doesn't happen i'm just throwing some pins right in there see stays right in place the next thing i'm going to do is go ahead and trace my image today i'm using a marvy fabric marker these come in all different sizes so that's great but i'm gonna use a finer tip and i'm just gonna trace this image haphazardly and even just improvise just a little bit because i have a hard time seeing from this angle one thing i'll say about the tracing part is you don't even have to really trace on a image like this you could just start painting right you could just start painting and then you wouldn't have the black outline and it wouldn't look so much like a color book page when you're done oh i hear the rain the rain just started i will also say about this technique is if you are extremely ocd which i can be sometimes if you like your painting projects to be very precise then uh i think a lot of practice with the watercolors would come in handy but what i have found is these watercolors and the fabric don't exactly behave and act the same way that they do when you're water coloring on watercolor or multimedia paper the fabric does wick the paint a little bit and so it does expand and bleed and so that's why i was saying if if you're extremely ocd or you want your paint to stay exactly and only where you are applying it then you might want to stick with a fabric paint because these watercolors they do bleed and i think it really depends on how wet your fabric is or how wet you make your paints but it will bleed so if you do not like that at all then uh either lots of experimenting in practice or using a specific fabric paint for your painting on fabric needs would be suggested i'm just going right through and tracing the b as soon as i get this done i'm going to just freehand a little border around this because i always think that that's cute when you do that and i believe i don't have the instructions right in front of me these fabric markers if you let them dry 24 hours uh then they're permanent i'm going to go ahead and heat set them with an iron and speed up that process just want to check to make sure that uh check for questions can you take the original print and fuse it to freezer paper yeah you could print this directly on your fabric using freezer paper on the backside of your fabric absolutely if you don't want to freehand and trace it you could do that uh just like sally mentioned uh depending on your printer and the inks that are in your printer uh you might have to figure out a way to make that permanent if you plan on washing your project when you're done because all of the inks are different and you might have to go through a process like using retain or bubble jet to set those inks into your fabric if you want to wash your project right so let's just go ahead and do a fun a little border free handed just to frame this in a little bit and i usually make mine sort of whimsical and wavy because i will never draw an exact straight line that will be perfect so at least it looks like i didn't have any mistakes so something like this like that we'll do some mitered corners in here like this and i'll just pretend that this is a pieced border and do some sewing lines like we have pieced this together like this and the whole thing is is that it's meant to be fun and relaxing and so just get creative with it and i'll do a couple little marks like this some little stitches like that there there little tears little rips little stitch marks little patches just like that so there we go yes absolutely keep pressing uh your print on fabric works just as well my printer my monochrome printer is a brother laser printer and all i have to do is heat set with an iron and that makes it permanent but you know i think you really need to do some experimenting with what you're working with i do barbara it just started you just sent it my way all right so this is dry but i'm going to go ahead and heat set that just to make sure that it doesn't bleed because i want my lines my black lines that i just drew i want them to stay nice and crisp and not do any bleeding and i cannot guarantee that it won't so i'm just going to heat set it with my iron on a cotton setting for just a minute and then we won't have to worry about it we can take off our little drawing now and while my iron is warming up i'm going to show you the paints and the brushes that i'm gonna use today so let me get my iron heating up because it was a sleep okay i'm actually gonna let y'all pick which paints we use but uh my giraffe was done with these these are ko noor watercolor paints it's actually a like a water color wheel uh it's really great for traveling and it has several different colors i think there's 24 different colors but these are watercolor paints and each section of the wheel has different colors you can actually get these with different colored themes like autumn warm cool you know they come in different uh themes of colors but this one is the basic one it has 24 colors i think yes 24 rich opaque colors four trays and a clear cover these are the ones that i used to do the giraffe this little guy right here was done with these paints they're dry you activate them with water then i have my winsor newton and travel palette right here i think there's like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven plus a white so you could use something like this as well i love this little travel palette it goes with me on my trips and it comes with a little paint brush but i hardly ever use that one so these again are just watercolors they're dry and you activate them with water i have not done any experimenting with my winsor newton paints and then my owl was done with my newest watercolor palette that i was so excited to get uh i had watched several reviews on the youtubes about this watercolor palette but this and i will not say this right i already know that y'all curiate conzi tombi palette just skip right past the way that i said that but this one comes with 36 colors these paints they're watercolor but they're a little bit different they have a shine to them almost like a lacquer which is kind of interesting i'm haven't painted with these on watercolor paper yet but these have a little bit of a shine to them see that they also uh when you activate them with water act a little bit differently than these do or my winsor newton watercolor paints but you see how these are they do not have a shiny they're more matte and these have a shiny finish to them see that but they painted the exact same way on fabric as the other ones did and that's what i use to do my owl so i'm going to just take a poll real quick we have this watercolor palette we have this watercolor palette and we have the winsor newton color palette which one do y'all want me to paint my little flower and bees with cur a towel key i would never say that right where did you get them from i put links to all of these in the description box i bought this one the color wheel and a small little art store in bennington vermont and it was 10.99 uh but i found them on amazon comparably the same amount of money and i put a link down in the description box if your local art shops do not carry it then you can find it on amazon my winsor newton color palette i bought at uh they just closed it was an art store not ben franklin's i'll think of it here in a second but they just closed but uh i did put a link for amazon if you want to check out the windsor newton palette and it was comparably the same amount of money and this one i had watched so many reviews and i bought this one on amazon so you can find all of them on amazon i have links to all of them but some of them you might actually be able to find locally to you in your art supply store the third one this one this one the color wheel the third one the windsor newton palette all right how about i do predominantly this one but we might throw in some of these two how about that i was kind of hoping for a unanimous decision but we'll predominantly use this one and then we'll throw in the little bits of the other two let me give this a good heat press i'm going to press it from the back side and just heat set that fabric marker i don't really know that it's necessary that you do that but on the safe side i just want to make sure that that fabric marker doesn't bleed because it has not been 24 hours since we applied it to the fabric just keep pressing for a second yeah we'll predominantly use this one and then i'll throw in a little bit of the color wheel and the winsor newton y'all just don't let me forget though don't let me forget there we go it is heat pressed let me clear this out you can see i have an array of different uh painting brushes they're not the most expensive brushes in the world y'all most of the time i buy those multi packs that have like 30 brushes in them and uh for like seven or eight bucks at the craft store these actually found at a thrift store they were brand new for a dollar i got like 40 brushes for a dollar at the thrift shop so you never know what you're going to find when you go there but that was a good deal right these are synthetic brushes and it's just a different assortment of them and that's what i'm using today lila the marker does not prevent from bleeding i wish it did i wish it did but it does not though the paint will just seep right past the water uh the marker on your fabric and uh i have one more experiment that i did not even think about bringing over here but i did an american flag and so before i even painted it i quilted it first thinking that that might prevent some bleeding and it did not it still bled through the quilting so i think it depends on how wet your fabric is too miss joan this is the first time i have done watercolor painting on fabric i do know there are some videos out there on youtube from other creators but this is the first time that i have used watercolors on fabric i've done other painting on fabric videos but none with watercolors before ac morse yes thank you honey thank you ac morse yeah they just closed mimsy no uh no they painted with the same opacity as each other uh and and you'll see here in just a minute uh how they actually go on the fabric but uh yeah no i didn't notice any difference on the fabric and i was happy with the results of both of them so here's my little drawing that we're gonna paint let me scoot this down a little bit so that you can see the whole thing and i'm just gonna put my pins back in here so it stays put whoops all the logistics of doing alive can you use uh a resist like a wax resist ah i'm sure you could i'm sure you could i have not experimented with that what i usually say in my videos is you know there's probably a hundred other things that you could do and i'm just gonna show you the results of what i've experimented with so far but i always recommend doing your own experimenting and trying different techniques you never know the results you're gonna get and it's a lot of fun experimenting i'm just throwing some pins right back in here so now we can paint on that and it's not going to move around hot wax would probably keep it from bleeding i imagine that it probably will i don't know mimsy said the paint will go where the water is alright so we have this watercolor palette let me get that together lay flat there we go all right now i have this cheap little this cheap little palette from the dollar tree like six of them came in here this works perfect though i'm gonna pour a little bit of my fabric medium into one of these little cups just like this without spilling it lisa that was close this is just straight up fabric medium but i've also put straight up fabric medium and the this little squirt bottle also from the dollar tree and that's what's in this one and this is just clear plain water in this one so fabric medium water and fabric medium and then i have just a cup of water just to rinse my brushes out all right and now we're going to start the fun stuff so before i do any wetting on the fabric let's take a look at what it's like to paint on the dry fabric okay uh let's take a look at that so what i like to do is wet my brush and then i use the fabric medium in the same manner that i would if i had water okay so i'm just going to wet my brush it's good and wet i'm going to dip it right in the fabric medium like that and then we're going to pick a color let's pick a green color just like that and then this fabric is dry we're just going to go in and start painting in you can see when i touch the fabric it does expand a little bit right so if if you want to start in the middle and work your way towards the outer edge you can see how much is it's going to actually spread and i don't necessarily dip my brush in the fabric medium every single time because now i've transferred some fabric medium right onto my water palette and so it's there just like that now it is spreading less because the fabric is dry but it is expanding a little bit and just wicking right into those fibers of the fabric just a little bit but if you want to be more precise start off with dry fabric and what's fun is we can heat set this with the iron before we move on and you can dry your work as you're painting along right so this is just right on to dry fabric it probably does [Applause] you probably get different results depending on the brushes you're using if your brush holds a lot of fluid in it and it's transferring a lot of fluid over to your fabric then the chances are that it's going to spread more this brush does not hold a lot of paint you can see i have to reload often so it's also not holding a lot of water or fabric medium so it's just wicking just a little little bit just like that what is fabric medium fabric medium well there's all different brands this is the one i'm using but it transforms any acrylic paint into a fabric paint which uh is permanent in your fabric so that you can wash this when you're done with minimal fading minimal fading just gonna go right in here and paint this other leaf and it's just barely spreading just a little tiny bit it does not show up shiny on the fabric though even though it looks like nail lacquer right it looks like nail polish and it's shiny in the palette it's not shiny on the fabric and see how often i have to reload the brush this brush is not holding lots of fluid so i'm having really great results this time with it not spreading as much but on the other hand you have to often reload your brush like this i'm going to paint these stems in and then i'll check to see if we have any questions if you have questions uh for me it would be really helpful if you put them in all caps i'd be able to see it a little bit easier see we have a little bit that went beyond the line there and there you might not even be able to see it from that far away but imagine you could do all kinds of shading ingredients with your paints i'm just being really simple because have you you know doing something while people are watching i like just to keep it simple but you could do all kinds of shading and lots of detail i'm just really putting down some color i will do a little bit of let me rinse that out and just i'm just rinsing right in water i'm going to do a little bit of a darker green like this and color this end too will this stay dark and vibrant so when you go back on the replay i'm going to show a couple of different experiments that i did with a giraffe picture and with a little cute owl and i'll show you the results after washing the way i heat set it and uh pre-washing and not pre-washing your fabric and uh so i did it a couple different ways so that i could show you some different results both ways i had some fading but it was minimal and i was really happy with uh with the way the finished product after washing and it's super soft it feels just like there's nothing there once you um wash it i will say that the watercolor feels a little chalky before you wash it so if you plan on doing any quilting i would either quilt it before you paint it or quilt it after you wash it like i did because the the paint does give the fabric a little bit of a tooth to it and i think that uh one of my last art projects i had used some fabric paint that gave my fabric a little bit of a tooth and i kept having issues with the thread breaking while i was trying to do some thread painting so my suggestion would be to quilt it first and then paint or paint it heat set it all and then quilt it once you're done washing it to soften it up actually i am really surprised that these paints are really not running that much in that fabric yay they're wicking a little tiny bit but i'm also not using a lot of fluid to activate my paints just a little bit of water and a little bit of fabric medium and i'm painting directly on dry fabric so there we go we're going to let that set up for a second what is the white stuff in the egg tray that is the fabric medium i've poured a little bit in the tray and i've also put some in a little squirt bottle i'm going to show you what i'm going to do with that here in just a minute so let's move this out of the way because i do want to heat set and dry this so we can move on janelle uh you could hand wash it but i threw my first two experiments right in the washer and usually i would use a cold water setting but so that i could see what it was going to do i used a hot water wash and i was pretty pleased with the results but you know it also has to do with your fabric medium because that's designed to turn acrylic paints into fabric paints that holds the color in the fabric permanently and so that's really what we're doing is we're transforming the watercolor paints into a fabric fabric paint with a fabric medium there's all different brands of this but this is my favorite one that i've used so far valerie says so after painting after this painting dries one could sew it into a project absolutely so we're just going to let that sit for just a second and then i'm going to heat set it before we move on like this little owl i made into just a little wall hanging i still need to put a backing on it but it's quilted with a back batting that's a cute little owl a wall hanging you could make your own little fabric panels and make a quilt out of it all kinds of stuff that you could do because this is wet i'm going to go ahead and just cover it with an extra piece of cotton fabric just to keep my iron nice and clean i'm just gonna move that right over and heat heat that and dry it up with a hot iron on a cotton setting you could let it air dry but see my teflon sheets keeping that nice and clean yes uh you can absolutely use your watercolor paints on paper once you're done with this uh what you might want to do is i have some baby wipes the fabric medium might make a little uh like a little film on your watercolor paints when they dry i just take a baby wipe and wipe that film off and then the paint underneath is perfectly fine and you can still continue to use it on your watercolor paper give me just a second i want to get this green paint up because it is still wet and i don't want it to transfer and soak through any parts of my any parts of my little masterpiece we're creating oh those baby wipes smell good did you show the fabric after it was washed joan yeah the al and the giraffe i have some examples at the beginning of this before and after washing it and the giraffe i washed twice so you can see the original the first wash and the second wash the owl one i just washed one time so you can see a beginning and after and the amount of fading that has happened which i think was pretty minimal uh i was pretty happy with it okie doke here is our little artwork that is nice and dry now that does have like a chalky feel and that's kind of the nature of a watercolor paint right is uh you know it feels a little bit different you can definitely feel it on the fabric at this point but if you're making an art quilt that's never going to be washed more than likely it's never going to have people running their hands hopefully over top of it right and so then it doesn't really matter what it feels like but if you're sewing it into a quilt or on a garment it does soften up and then once you wash it it doesn't feel like there's anything in it at all we go that's pretty much not going to move there we go what brand of fabric marker do you like i have a couple of different ones i have the marvy ones m-a-r-v-y fabric markers they come in all different tips i really like these because when i was drawing they did not wig and bleed now i will say that i just ordered some new ones and i don't have them right here is this one of the new ones no i ordered some art arteza fabric markers and i tried using those and those did bleed a little bit more than these marvy ones do so if you want nice clean crisp lines i really do recommend the marvy fabric markers they come in all different colors but these are my favorite i still have to get used to the arteza ones all right so that's nice and dry so we're going to do some wet painting now so here's one of the things that i also like to do and one of the reasons why i put the fabric medium and water in these little squirt bottles is because instead of having to dip directly into the fabric medium every single time or every third time to make sure that the fabric medium is getting mixed with my paint i like just to go ahead and squirt my fabric with the fabric medium and that's going to cover every inch of my fabric and just really coat that so the fabric medium is in there and then i have to apply that a lot less to my brush and to my paints so now it is all wet with fabric medium i'm going to come in with a little bit of water and just spray that and wet it even more wow what's really cool is i kind of expected the green to bleed out when i did that but because we heat set it right now it is staying in place so that's awesome i kind of really expected that to start bleeding already so there you go i'll also take my water and i just activate my paints just like this i don't know which colors we're using so i'm going to squirt the whole thing with water get those softening up a little bit and then we're just going to do some fun painting let me clean that brush out where's my little napkin thing now i'm just dipping right in water and we can have fun oh it needs a lot more water than that lisa there we go painting in a background painting in a background i wish i was like inspirational like bob ross and talked to my paintings but i really don't and i'm nowhere near as fun to watch but it's a lot of fun to do i encourage you if you have some watercolor paints oops i got a little thread there to have fun experimenting i'm gonna add a little bit more water because i thought i soaked the fabric but really i did not it's just a little damp and i want the paint to really move on the fabric there we go if you like softer and more whimsical pieces then the watercolors are great and even though this palette here this was like 40 bucks that's a little bit more than what i wanted to pay but i've been wanting these paints for a long time other watercolor palettes are not expensive i'm even wondering what a crayola watercolor palette would do if you mix it with fabric medium i imagine it would act the same way and those are a lot less expensive right and what i do plan on doing is washing this piece as well and that will not happen today but when i do there's a link in the description box for lisa cape and quilts facebook page my facebook page i'm going to post before and after results of this piece so if you're on facebook and you want to see what this looks like after we wash it i will keep you updated over there i'm just filling in that's some blue here and there in the background and because the fabric is pretty wet there's no hard edges with my paint i just really want it just to blend out we will use the color wheel in just a second let's see i'm going to add a little bit of darker blue around the corners and edges ooh that's a pretty blue that's a pretty blue one thing i did notice when i was doing the giraffe is if if you're not getting really dark results the first time if you let it dry or if you dry it with your iron and you come back and apply more color it does get darker the more and more you apply the color so keep that in mind if you really want some bold color in your work let it dry or just hit it with the iron and then reapply some more paint i'm just going for some soft color in the background without any really hard edges just blending blending blending so great to see everybody so great to see you if you've just joined me i applied some fabric medium to the fabric itself before i started applying the fabric or the paints and these are watercolor paints but i was so like really tickled with the results of my experimenting that i've been excited to share this with everybody there we go all right so let's see i know y'all wanted to experiment with the color wheel as well so let's use let's use this to color in some of our flowers what colors do we have here let's use the red i'll move these out of the way for a second just going to spray those with some water just to start activating and softening up the paint just going to reapply some fabric medium just a couple squirts right over top of the flower make sure that there's plenty of that so the colors will be permanent and now we'll use let's see let's go with this red i'm just starting in the middle in case it really starts spreading then it doesn't spread too much every once in a while i'll dip my brush into the fabric medium then in a little water the wetter your brush the more your paints are going to spread y'all can see my hands are shaky a little bit that's okay hello everybody it's so great to see y'all so you can see that it's starting to bleed and to wick into the background a little bit because the background is uh it's pretty wet it's pretty wet and i'm being very generous with the water on my brush and so it will it will spread outside of those black lines but if y'all take a look at my leaves i am super excited about the painting on dry fabric because i had very very little bleeding with that so you can see the difference in the two different techniques to be really honest though i kind of like the watercolor for the reason that it does flow and move and it just looks soft and very whimsical i guess if you want to be more controlled you might want to start with dry dry fabric and not wet fabric right so there's my two little flowers let's use choices choices a little bit of a darker this is more like a brick color really for the middle again if you want some really bold color you could apply some and let it dry or just heat press it with your iron and dry it and then reapply and the more you do that the more color actually goes into the fabric and makes it darker so there's that janelle you like the watery effect it does it makes it very soft right very soft not as controlled as the leaves are sally yes i agree the wet on wet it's more charistic of a watercolor painting right yes now we'll go ahead and apply a little bit of water to these winsor newtons and let those soften up for a second i'll take a sip of water anna yes this is a lot of fun it's a lot of fun just being creative and just really relaxing and having fun with it right just having fun sometimes i have so much control and ocd with some of my projects that i do that every once in a while i need this sometimes i just need a project that i don't stress out over the results so much with and it doesn't have to be so controlled and my brain needs that kind of release every once in a while for it to be just fun and creative and enjoy the process without having to control it as much let's see let's take some oh my brush was not cleanly so that was not clean that's all right i'm gonna take some yellow and we'll color in this little bee do you ever stitch over the lines when you are done absolutely absolutely in some of my examples i've stitched around the lines sometimes i stitch through the lines does it wash off we've used a fabric medium so it might fade a little bit but on the replay you can go back and watch i've shown some examples of how it reacts when you wash it and there is a little bit of fading but because we've applied a fabric medium the fading is minimal and i did some experimenting with a fabric that was pre-washed and not pre-washed so you can see the results uh if you go back and watch from the beginning i do show what it looks like once you wash it and once you wash it it's super soft it doesn't feel like there's any pain in it at all i'm just going to color his whole body right in there like that there we go there we go it doesn't have to be exact lisa it doesn't have to be so precise all the time you can blend your colors you can add shading all the kinds of fun stuff all the fun stuff and then soften up those lines oh i kind of like that i will be putting uh is that a black hopefully that's a black uh yes i will be putting before and after pictures of this on my facebook so once i get it washed you can see how much fading actually happens after i wash it yes the blue is melting there he's super cute i actually think that's brown not black that's okay that's okay so great to see everybody today what have you all been working on since we've finished the happy at home series all of those blocks what have you been working on since then there he's super cute right all right yeah if you've just joined me these are watercolor paints uh i'm using three different three different brands of watercolor paints and i've linked them all in the description box below so you could check those out but this little painting here has three different brands and i'm also using the golden gac 900 fabric medium which is my favorite there's all different kinds of fabric mediums out there this is just my favorite one helen i'm not sure if michaels has that fabric medium or not i'm not sure you could uh check their website and see if they carry it you might be able to order it through them but i've also put a link uh for amazon in the description box in case they don't i know that's where i bought mine janelle you tried some quilt as you go did you love it sally how many of your 200 pineapple blocks have you done june you've you're doing a star quilt your stars are a little off when you started to connect them that's okay dor today is the first day in five months you get pizza oh pizza i hope you enjoy it sheila you're deciding on your next quilts don you have four works in progress going on gene you have trigger finger oh you're giving it a rest yeah sometimes you have to do that okay so you can definitely see i wanted to give it a few minutes because i want you to see what's going to happen with these because the fabric is so wet but i also want you to notice the green right we did the green part on dry fabric and then we just dried it with an iron before we wet the fabric to do the rest so i want you to just that's why i'm kind of like hesitating for a minute i'm stalling because i want you to see what happens the fabric is still really really wet but it kind of just looks whimsical right so if you want more of a controlled look paint on dry fabric if you like the whimsical and not much control over this right we could dry this really quick with an iron and set it where it is but i'm just gonna let it keep doing its thing bob ross would be happy i love bob ross so much i grew up on bob ross all right because we wanted to experiment with these paints a little bit more i'm just going to apply a little bit of fabric medium right along this border once again it's already there but i just like to keep throwing it on there that fabric medium is what sets with the paint and keeps everything all locked in and permanent with minimal fading i'm not going to say it won't fade at all but it does make it so that it's minimal i'm just going to start throwing some colored patches right in our border here and there sally you made the egg roll thing last night isn't that so good i'm going to tell you i'm going to have to modify that recipe i've made it a couple times and if i posted the recipe that i'm using which i think i did it calls for hoisin sauce i've decided i don't like hoisin sauce so i'm gonna have to modify that recipe a little bit i don't like the hoisin sauce otherwise it's really delicious just going to throw some color in these little patchwork border pieces susan you've quilted two of your sections of the at home together quilt that's awesome that's awesome you know i'm also wondering you know when you do sublimation which i have not tried yet i've been in the research phase for sublimation for some time now but when you do sublimation sublimation requires some polyester in your fabric or your garment in order for it to work i'm almost wondering and i haven't tried this yet either using a cotton poly blend to paint on and if that polyester would bond more with the fabric medium and the pigments and in the paint to make a more permanent bond that is something else i want to experiment with down the road all different variances oops getting messy getting messy let me get that painted oh you're trying to write this all down gene let's see uh start with pre-washed medium grade muslin yes i think that gives you a little bit more of a controlled uh finish with minimal fading marvy fabric markers for tracing the picture yeah any fabric marker would do my favorite my favorite just happens to be the marvie and dry 24 hours or heat set before painting correct wanda you uh you like the control of the green area yeah this is more haphazard flowy right genie yes no wrappers on egg roll in a bowl no wrappers no wrappers let's switch out the colors here let's use uh let's see we've done a few of those colors let's bring in some of these i'm just going to squirt some water right on these blues and it wants to move around a little bit foreign and i'm just really throwing down the paint y'all you could really take your time you could really take your time and be a little bit more precise and accurate with your painting techniques right i'm just kind of throwing it down in there remember the more water the more medium on your brush the more it's going to wick and spread out in your fabric just like that depending on the look you're going for i think you're really just gonna have to do some experimenting and some practice with it if you want more of a controlled look right valerie you made it home you made it home just in time just in time i'm going to throw some orange in there oh that's a pretty orange that's pretty now at any time you could come in here and unpin this and bring it over and heat set everything and then you have dry fabric to work with and you'd have more of a controlled more of a controlled painting environment we did the green on dry fabric and just working with this the fabric does start to dry just as we're working with it so if you want more of a wet wash more of a wet watercolor effect you will have to keep applying water to the fabric if that's what you want june you can't draw so you'll need a pattern yeah uh this little flower and b was a free color book page i found on the google same with the owl and the giraffe they were all free i've linked those color book pages in the description box below but if you just do a google search free color book pages i think you could spend a week going through and printing out free color book pages and that's what i've done to get these images so if you can't draw but you can trace this is perfect this is perfect so there's orange from the wheel palette delia yep fabric medium fabric medium that turns all of this into permanent fabric paints right we're just going to move those out of the way and we're bringing in is fun colors one more time let's see which ones do i want to use how about this teal or that mint green that's pretty mint green and mint green and this color there we go i'm just squirting them with water to activate them because they've been sitting and drying a little bit giving my brush a little rinse just come in with this mint green color oh i got the dropsies and once i get these little patches colored in i am going to bring this and dry it really quick because at any point you can come back with the fabric markers and add little details which is a lot of fun let's see that's enough for the green sally i've wanted to do that forever a whole cloth quilt with painted sections i have designed in my computer on my long arm a whole cloth quilt that has flowers in it that i think would be amazing uh if you went in and you uh oh good grief if you went in and painted the flowers it would look just like applique right so really that's why i was on this search i bought some really expensive inks from the quilt festival and when i say they were expensive they were pretty pricey and you did not get a lot of it's there's not a lot of ink in these little containers because that's what i've wanted to do i wanted to do a whole cloth quilt and paint it in and uh so i thought those inks would be great but you have to use so much of the ink it was so expensive and i was like there's got to be a less expensive way than that i kind of like the watercolors i kind of like the watercolors uh i was just going to which color was that gonna do let's do this one gotta be handmade you've never seen this done it's so much fun you're gonna have to give it a try i'm just gonna fill up the rest of these little empties with this darker teal color and i'm not even being that exact with it i was growing up i was like i don't know how bob ross paints with all these people watching him i would be a nervous wreck and here i am painting with a lot of people watching that's crazy let me heat up this iron because i do want to heat set this i'm gonna go ahead and dry it then we'll do one more controlled paint on top of it just to see how that reacts and then i'll show you how you can use fabric markers on top of it to come in and add a little bit of detail but you really want it dry to do that sheila you said you're better with pencils and pins and not so much brushes yeah it just takes a little practice oh anna you're gonna do an angel that would be so pretty that would be pretty you'll have to send me a picture of it you know look at the mess underneath look at the mess underneath right no mistakes just happy absolutely yes is my wet wipe still wet i'm just going to clean that up so none of this re-transfers back on to my piece once i bring it back over just using a wet wipe cleaning that up that's another thing i like about the watercolors is the cleanup it's pretty easy there's no smells to it either let's see if it went through my teflon sheet um the water did not the paint that's good i'm just going to give this a press let's see you missed the beginning so uh i showed a couple different ways that i add the fabric medium i have it in a little cup just like this that you can dip the brush into and then wet your paints with it but i also have it in a little squirt bottle and i spray my fabric with it you could spray your paints with it as well but i just like pre-treat the fabric with the fabric medium and that seems to work really well too i'm going to show you here in just a second one of the reasons why you'll want to use a pressing cloth when you uh are pressing this if you're not if you're going to press this when it's wet it's still a little bit wet let me dry it a little bit more if you're going to press it when it's wet make sure to use a pressing cloth because this is what happens which is kind of really cool right that's the pressing cloth and you don't really want to get that on your iron or you can just be really patient and let it sit and dry ain't nobody got time for that so i just press it dry with my iron but make sure to use a pressing cloth because you don't want that to get on your iron all right that is mostly dry mostly mostly dry now you can tell that when the paint's dry they do uh they're not quite as bold so take a look at it when it's dry and if you want to come back in and add more color you can most certainly do that ooh my rug is here i just saw the truck pull up honey if you're watching our rug is here yay so let me show you i like to dip my brush right in the fabric medium and you can activate the paint that way i'm not even going to pin this in place we're just going to apply the paint just like that so oh that's kind of pretty i like that let's do that to the rest of the flower i'll leave one flower original and i'll paint this other one again with the green palette i'm not even going to try to say that it's the green palette and the fabric is mostly dry so you can see it's not running that much if any dip and paint i do like the pigments that are in this paint i do like that but in my two examples i used let's see the owl painting example i used this green palette here and in my giraffe painting i used the color wheel so you can and i did not mix them up this this one we're doing together has a mix of three different watercolor brands actually yes sue you'd use your pressing cloth as fabric in your quilt yeah it's kind of like a we just created a background didn't we let's see let's go for a crazy center for this flower just to see how that would look i'm just going to paint it in solid just like this there we go oh i like that a lot right more controlled less spreading and now that the fabric is dry or i'd say it's like it's like 98 dry you can always come back and add fun little details like that or like a little loop-de-loops trail from the bee like that right isn't that cute doing it upside down is not the easiest thing in the world [Laughter] so there's some examples of using watercolors on fabric three different color palettes we've used today now once it dries you're going to notice it's not quite as vibrant you can always come back once it's dry and reapply dry see there's a little tiny bit of a little tiny bit of uh wicking right there but that's okay or just re-wet the whole thing and apply more paint once it's dry and just keep building up your paint colors because they do dry a little bit differently a little bit lighter than the colors that you see when they're wet and that's kind of typical of watercolors right sometimes the color is not quite as vibrant even on watercolor paper when it's dry that's kind of neat this little effect that happened i don't know if you can see that but it kind of looks like a flower when i pressed it i don't know what that came from but that kind of looks really neat and then this i got a funky little line going through there from my iron you see that right where i first laid down the iron on the pressing cloth there's that so if you don't want that to happen you might want to let it air dry too are you going to give this to someone i hadn't thought about it maybe we'll do a giveaway but it's kind of just like a testing thing so i don't know if anybody really wants it or not it's not my best work i think if i were just if it was just me and i had some music on that i would keep on building on this and really making it more bright and vibrant i probably would have chosen a little bit of a different colors for this but i really wanted to kind of use all of the different colors right orange red green and so that you could get an example of what they look like but um it'll be for really demonstration purposes only this one but i do plan on finishing this and then i'm gonna take a picture before and then a picture after it goes through the wash and post that on my facebook and if you have not followed me over on facebook there's a link in the description box and it'll bring you over to my facebook page so you can keep an eye out for that uh it'll be in the next couple of days uh because i'll let it dry or i'll dry it with my iron some more and then you have to heat set it okay the fabric medium that we're using you do have to heat set it with an iron or a heat press and uh in the beginning of this video i go over the temperatures and how long you have to do it so that has to be done and then i'll wash it and take a picture so that you can see how it holds up to the washing and you know what i do think i'm sitting here looking at it in person and then i see it up on my computer screen i do think that the camera changes the results a little bit like in person it looks a little bit more vibrant than what you see on the screen so keep that in mind too keep that in mind too oh sally says use the pressing cloth for a journal cover yes yeah did you see isn't that cool looking kind of like a little batik look going on a little bit right a little tiny bit that would be fun right make your own batik fabrics using watercolors that would be fun that would be fun pretty sure i've missed some questions so just to let you know i did not see them we'll do questions now if i missed your question in uh if you have time if you want to post it if you type it in all caps it makes it really easy for me to see and um yeah now would be a great time because i think i'm just going to leave this just the way you see it and let it dry how about painting the whole picture painting the whole picture you could paint the whole picture i like the softer blue background and the sky area but you could paint the whole entire thing you could paint the whole entire thing it's been great just to hang out and have some just like some down time i think i was going through a little bit of a burnout does that ever happen to you where you're just so so busy for so long that you kind of lose interest in everything i think i was going through that a little bit but it feels good just to have some una plan you know just some creative time where it's not as rigid and precise can the background with the bleeding be painted with white you know what i tried that on uh i don't want to get up because i have my bob ross stretchy pants on right now and i'm not even kidding they're bob ross pictures on my stretchy pants so i don't want to stand up but i did a flag one and that bled a little bit and i covered it up with white and it kind of worked it kind of worked you could still see a little ghosting but it kind of worked let's uh let me show you since we're here where's my brushes there we go since we're right here i'll show you what that looks like i think that's white right there sprand some water on there just to let it soften up debbie you haven't been sewing this week bye sue anitra you burn out more than you'd like to admit how is your quilting machine i got your last update but that was some time ago was it the bobbin case the spring in the bobbin case causing your issue i was i was going for many many days jeannie i was and i i didn't really even realize how much work that all what involved until after i wasn't doing it anymore and then i was like holy cow all the behind the scenes stuff that had to happen do you have any other samples i do i'll bring them over in just a second let's experiment with the white trying to cover up some of this first so that we can show what that looks like i want to make sure i have a nice clean brush so so i'm not transferring any color into the white and you get a really true result of what i'm talk of what it does let's see also keep in mind that once the white dries you might still have some of the original color popping through the white but let's just do this so you can see i can see the yellow a little bit through there through there i'll have to go over my b-tracks again but i kind of want to show you that the white you know it's it's not truly opaque it is transparent you can see that black line come through it so you will possibly see the color underneath of the white pop through as well but if you wanted to do a touch-up area you can kind of see that you might be able to cover a little bit of something up so can you see that i think you can see that on the screen little patch of white that i just did around the butterfly let's show you what it looks like with the pink i think if you really were using the watercolors and you made a boo-boo and you didn't want to scratch the whole project you could break out the fabric paints you know paints that are formulated to be fabric paints because those are not uh as translucent as watercolors are and then you could probably cover it up with a white fabric paint and then come back in right but there you go you kind of see that the pink is definitely bleeding through the white a little bit but it does soften it up oh the lockdown i messed you up miss anitra i'm so sorry so it was the spring i'm so glad you got that figured out so you're just waiting for them to be able to come down for the other parts okay oh valerie i love pat sloane i'm so glad uh that youtube the videos have sparked your interest back into quilting yes i love watching her videos too yeah you could certainly use the white as highlights right i don't think it's going to by by forest i don't think it's going to do any cover-ups but it might lighten up and highlight lighten up highlight and what what else was i going to do what was that going to do oh show the other examples uh i i showed these at the beginning of the video so i go into a lot more detail on this towards the beginning of the video and i even show you what it looks like before i washed them let me uh let me clean up this mess first because i don't want to get anything accidentally on my example pieces i'm just using a wet wipe and getting that paint right off of there there we go so these are my two examples these have been washed this one's been washed two times look at look at the color still in there two times this one's been washed once i washed them both with hot water and uh i did use the golden uh gac 900 fabric medium when i did both of these this one was done with my color wheel and i don't know oh here we go this one was done with these watercolor paints and the owl was done with these see that mint green right there mint green so uh different watercolor paints i want you to just experiment with what you can find too right yeah so there's my examples lots and lots of fun and here's the one we've created together which is still a little bit wet where we added those white paints and the red but it's been a lot of fun it's been a lot of fun mainly i've just wanted to share this process and some of the experimenting that i've done to this point i do want to experiment with a cotton poly blend i'm almost thinking that it might hold the color the pigment more into the fibers of the fabric i don't know that's why i always say you should always you know use the videos as inspiration but i always think that you should be doing your own experimenting before just jumping into a huge project without knowing the results right oh debbie says my problem is i get too interested in too many different art projects quilting painting crochet and i end up having too many projects mostly done but not completed join the club oh you should see i have uh i can think of right off the top of my hand and so you can get those oh i see we're freezing up all right it looks like i'm buffering so come on internet stay green you can google free color book pages there's an endless supply of them but i've linked the giraffe the owl and the one that i've painted here in the description box so that you can find them really quickly if you want to use any of those images and so just thank you to the creators of these free images and you are linked in the description box thank you very much and it was traced with a fabric marker i did heat set the fabric marker just to dry it uh and so that we could paint and it would not bleed into our little masterpiece right yep and uh so i'm gonna go ahead and go since the internet is seeming like it wants to do some crazy stuff this afternoon i thought our internet issues were all solved but i do know there are some issues down the street so maybe that's what they're working on i hope anyway i've enjoyed spending some time with you today i do miss seeing you more often but uh i hope that this technique has maybe given you an idea or sparked an idea for an upcoming a project and either way i hope that uh yeah you just have fun experimenting with this process as always i would love to see what you do with this method and i know we're frozen again uh there's a link to creative crew group if you have not joined that that is a facebook group and you can join that the link is in the description box i would love to see your pictures and we are frozen up so i'm hoping you caught all that before i say goodbye i hope you have a lovely weekend coming up and i'll see y'all next week have a great day everybody

Channel: Lisa Capen Quilts

Views: 13,477

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Id: 8hjhgYF5PX8

Length: 130min 37sec (7837 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 11 2020