It’s the Tour de France, in Yorkshire! It’s coming to my little city and everyone’s super excited about it! Well there are lots of signs everywhere which is pretty much the same thing…I’m excited anyway as I love sports and events where you don’t to travel very far and then people give you free stuff. I think they throw hats into the crowd before the race and that’s really what I’m all about.
Anyway I thought I’d give t-shirt printing/painting another go since I was so pleased with my Stegosaurus T-shirt. So I decided for a bike theme so that I could wear it with my free hat whilst watching cyclist with giant thighs whizz past me. I used a t-shirt, blue Dylon paint, foam, paintbrush, pen, pictures of bikes.
I started by searching online for good pictures of bikes, this took the longest time because with this technique you only get the outline so all the detail is lost and bikes are all fiddly details it would seem. I found three different ones- a penny farthing, a road bike, and a tricycle. I printed them and cut them out then drew around them on the foam and cut it out of foam.
T Shirt Printing
T Shirt Printing
Next up I arrange the foam cut outs on my t-shirt and very lightly marked tiny dots indicating where each one was to go. The I painted the other side of the foam blue (remember to paint the other side or the image will be the reverse of the one you originally wanted), the paint would have gone on much better if my brushes hadn’t been so harden due to lack of care and you can see the streaky results in the bottom middle image. I painted over them again straight onto the t-shirt. On reflection I decided I preferred the initial streaky results but it was too late!
You are supposed to iron the fabric paint to set it but I just threw it into the wash which took off the top layer and gave me a more faded look. I definitely don’t think this worked out as well as the stego shirt but it might be wearable!
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