Fill a small sprayer bottle with colour and splash away or use a straw to blow designs on the fabric. A fun way to randomly paint the design. You can either buy spray fabric paint or add a special additive to paint which will make your paint to sprayable consistency if you want a professional effect.
What is the Simply collection?
The Simply collection is designed to give budding and beginner artists alike the chance to try something new, simply paint, simply draw, simply create! It’s made to make an art and fun journey uncomplicated, so they can focus less on the tools and more on their handiwork. This means that each product in the Simply collection is excellent value for money while remaining reliable and of a high standard.
The Simply Acrylics collection of soft, water-based colours can be used straight from the tube, are fast drying and provide vivid colours. The classic tones, range of sizes available and fast action makes the Daler-Rowney acrylic paint set perfect for a variety of purposes.
Alongside the Simply Acrylic paint collection is Simply Watercolours, which have a high light fastness and create washes with ease, as well as Simply Oils, which offer smooth consistency.
Both the Simply Acrylic and Watercolour paints have their own Simply paper collection that complements their paint products. Many also use the Simply canvases for these paint types as well as for the Simply Oils. And as for applying, there are the Simply Acrylic, Watercolour and Oils brushes, which all work with the Simply paints.
More from the Simply collection
The Simply collection doesn’t stop there. It also includes the gouache collection of opaque watercolours, sketching and colouring pencils, paper, mediums, markers, sketchbooks and even accessories such as palettes, an apron and an art board, giving you everything you need to get started.
So, if you’re looking to get creative or begin drawing and painting, the Simply collection gives you an easy starting point.
Simply features
The Simply collection ensures affordability without compromising on quality.
Resist Art. (And no, that’s not a suggestion.)
Here is a nice technique that you can use in a piece of artwork, a craft project, as its own artwork, or other creative visual applications. Resist art is an art technique that uses several layers to expose or define a design in negative space. Using a clear medium, tape, or other item, the artist covers portions of a surface with a “resist” layer to shape invisible designs, patterns, and other things. The artist then paints over the covered areas with a colored layer. The color adheres to the surrounding surface, letting the resist layer show through.
Resist painting can be a simple or as complex as you make it. In fact, resist painting is a common project for children because of its simple tenants and creative flexibility. Here are the elements to consider for this art technique.
Choosing A Surface
Remember that whatever your surface you choose for your resist art, when you apply a medium or item to block the color, that is the surface that will show through the “relieved” areas of your project. (If you use a colored medium as your resist medium, then the color of the medium shows, rather than your surface.) With that in mind, make sure that those areas of your surface are the way you envision.
Resist Layer Mediums
The resist medium you use can be any number of things, depending in the results you are looking for. Tape, paper cut outs, and stickers are simple resist mediums that you can use on virtually any surface can hold paint. If you want to use a stencil to create your resist shape, then use a liquid medium. Glue, rubber cement, and other adhesives, plus wax, white crayon and colored pencils, and clear paint mediums are great for this kind of use. The look of your resist will depend on the resist medium you use, so experiment with a few to see what appeals to you tastes, and what fits your vision.
Top Layer Mediums
When you use a resist layer medium that can be removed easily from your surface, such as tape, stickers, or paper cut outs, then you can use virtually any top layer medium to define the resist layer that can adhere to your surface. This can be acrylic paint, oil paint, ink, markers, watercolors, charcoal, pastels, and so on. If you use a water-resistant, liquid medium for the resist layer, then it limits you to water-soluble mediums like watercolors. Again, experiment with the mediums you have accessible to get a feel for what will expose the resist layer best.
This is a great technique that can be used in any number of ways, so use your imagination and get creative! (This is a great technique to use for egg decorating as well.) Happy creating!
8. Finger-painting
Ok, you do not have brushes and you like to mess with paint. Your hands can create beautiful art work literally. Just try it, and you will find it very liberating. There is something very childlike in using your hands to paint away directly on to fabric.
You may have to scrub the paint from under the nails – a very frustrating process, believe me.
9. Tie-dye with fabric paint
Ok, there is nothing tie or dye about this technique. It is another form of wet on wet technique but gives a nice tie and dye look
Use a very thin cotton fabric for this method to work.
Soak the fabric liberally. Squeeze to remove water. It should still be wet, but not dripping wet. Fold it two times by the center.
Start applying the paint as in the picture below. Use your forefinger to press the paint over to the bottom layers.
Open the fabric immediately. Spread to dry. Do not wash for about one week as in any fabric painting process.
10. One stroke painting
This is a very beautiful technique – even a beginner can easily master this method of fabric painting and create beautiful designs, especially floral ones. Simply load a flat brush with paint and use it in one stroke to paint petals and other designs.
A single color or more shades of colors can be loaded on the brush to create a shaded effect.
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