More waiting!

Ok so I got fed up with waiting and I peeled the stencil off. The only danger to doing this while the paint is still semi wet is that it could potentially smear. However I'm impatient, and I did not smear! I'm actually even happier with this than I thought I would be. It turned out really well. A little bit of bleeding under the stencil, but fortunately this design really lent itself to that.

And the other hazard of doing this when it's wet is getting it all over your fingers, as you can see in the picture. Oh well. Now it's time to let it dry all the way, then I get to do the back!!

Step 1 - Complete

After quite some time digging through my storage in an attempt to find all the stuff I need for

this... I am successful!

So got some t-shirting done. Now it's just wait for it to dry.. which is always the frustrating part. Anyhoo, here's pictures of the process thus far - it's super easy. Because of the problems I created by my choice of stencil, I decided to make it an inverted image on the shirt. Hopefully it works when I peel off the stencil. This first one is the stencil, and you can see the fabric paint I've been using. I just get it at Robert's Craft store.

Next are a few images of my journaling process for this project. I've been working on returning to my research sketchbook habits, which means I've been vomiting ideas into here. For this one, it seems to be a lot of Alice quotes, and a couple pieces of design.

Ironing the stencil on. Woot.

Then "artistic" spraying on of colors, until I'm happy with the look, trying not to overdo it.

And now, waiting for it to dry so we can peel off the stencil and see how it turned out. Fingers crossed!

I hate waiting.

I really need to prepare better...

So I went over to go do some splash painting today because I finally was free at the time the studio was open. Once I got there I realized "haha HEY! I don't have my paint with me... it's all the way at home... and I'm not going there and back..." So I ended up just dropping off my ball jars, and now I just need to bring my paint next time. Then I can have epic splash painting adventures.

I cut out the design for the front of my Cheshire Cat shirt.. so I think I'm going to make up for missing painting, and go do some fun shirt making instead! hopefully this works...