High school goths

[Toy Killer]

Most towns have 'the' Art store, usually independantly owned, everyone looks like they had a prerequisite of being a high school art teacher for X amount of years before working there.

That is the place to go. they probably know 6 different ways to accomplish it and use excess materials to sculpt mona lisa. But worse comes to worse, either nail or stapple some wax paper to a wooden board, put some masking tape down, all going the same direction, trace out the design, cut it out with an exacto knife and very very carefully peal it out and put it down on the shirt. then splatter away and take the masking tape off. I would say use either acrylic or the laytex paint, but becareful of putting too many layers on it.

[shogem]

Originally Posted by Toy Killer

Most towns have 'the' Art store, usually independantly owned, everyone looks like they had a prerequisite of being a high school art teacher for X amount of years before working there.

That is the place to go. they probably know 6 different ways to accomplish it and use excess materials to sculpt mona lisa. But worse comes to worse, either nail or stapple some wax paper to a wooden board, put some masking tape down, all going the same direction, trace out the design, cut it out with an exacto knife and very very carefully peal it out and put it down on the shirt. then splatter away and take the masking tape off. I would say use either acrylic or the laytex paint, but becareful of putting too many layers on it.

I work at an art store

Masking tape is a good idea. Acrylic paint on shirts would be interesting, but I don't really know how well it works versus getting standard silkscreen paint. I have some friends who freepaint designs onto shirts and whatnot, but yeah. We don't carry it so I know next to nothing about fabric painting :[

[Toy Killer]

I'm not too sure either, I painted a logo onto a shirt once, but it was more of just a gentle dry brush and it ruined like thirteen shirts of mine when they went through the laundry (or made them a really dark red), you might beable to stop that with a matte varnish, but I don't know what that would do to it.

For the most part I just take disks over to a screen printing shop. have yet to have a real problem except costs from time to time.

[Technowitch]

The problem with using regular acrylics on fabric is that, unless the fabric is gessoed or otherwise primed, the acrylics will just wash out. If you go to a craft or fabric store you can pick up fabric paint, which is meant to go on fabric and withstand the wash. Thin it out slightly like you would with acrylics so it'll go on easier. Just make sure that you don't get the puffy kind, because if you don't wash it on the gentle cycle and then hang dry it, it tends to buckle up and peel off pretty quickly.