Fabric painting-Blending-Regras de casa

"Love is the flower you got to let Grow"-James lennon

Hello everyone..

Last week I came across many wonderful youtube videos on drawing flowers on fabric..Inspired by those incredible videos, I too attempted one of them..

Please take a look..

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Fabric painting-Blending--DIY-Three flowers

"Draw for the love for Drawing"-Famous Quote

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Today, I have posted a hand drawn flower painting on a poplin fabric.. The technique used to color this picture is "Blending"..

Things needed:

A clean and ironed Poplin Fabric:
Poplin is a fabric woven with criss cross ribs of any fiber such as cotton,wool,silk,etc., which gives it a strong texture and it prevents any paint from oozing down through it. White poplin works well with most acrylic or fabric colors but any color fabric is fine. Buy Poplin cloth here

 Many Different colors of Acrylic/Fabric paints



Paint Brushes

1. A Flat Brush No:2 or 3(For color filling)
2. A lettering Brush No:000 or 00(For outlining)

Short and Stiff bristles are preferable..

Painting Frame
A painting frame helps to tighten the fabric and holds it in the stretched form.



Other Essentials:

1. An old cloth for cleaning brushes in between changing colors
2. An old piece of card or paper to place under the fabric
3. Clean water
4. A mixing tray(Optional in case we want to mix certain colours)

Technique: 

Blending is a wonderful and subtle technique, that makes our painting realistic.. As the name suggests, in this technique,  two are more colors are blended using a water loaded flat brush to give a different effect to the painting..

There are three steps in blending..

1. Base color filling
2. Outlining
3. Blending

Base color filling is the same process of filling the entire area with color using a short flat brush.. For illustration of color filling, please refer to my pink flowers post.

Outlining is done only on a selected area where we want the second color to be blended with the first color..

Blending is done by loading the flat brush with water and gently brushing on the outline and slowly mixing the outline color with the base color..

All these steps are illustrated below..

The pattern is hand drawn on the fabric..

 For the top layer of the petals, the base color is lemon yellow and outline is crimson..

Now the outline is blended into the base color..

When done for all petals, the painting looks like this..

Now for the botton layer, the base color is light pink and the outline is crimson..

Now these two colors are blended using a water loaded flat brush..

The flower center is painted crimson ..Now, comes the leaf..With base color lemon yellow and outlined with light green ..

The leaves are blended..

The outline is done with black..

Now some tiny detailing is done on the flower center..

The finished painting..

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DIY Painted Pen Stand

"It is important to reuse our resources. If you don't recycle and reuse things, you may run out of them."-David Murdoch

Hello everyone..
 Today I have reused a card box that comes with biscuits(to retain its freshness) as a painted pen stand..I have used acrylic paints and felt tip pens to paint on this box..

Things needed:

1. An old box(of Biscuits,tea box,etc.,)


2. Acrylic paints 



3. Painting brushes



4. Black Felt tip pen
5. Pencil(For drawing the patterns)

The top side of the box is cut off to make it as a holder and the a design is hand drawn with a pencil on the surface.. and criss cross patterns are drawn on the remaining sides of the boxes.. as shown below

 

 Then the flower pot is colored with pink petals,light green leaves and pearl yellow spots..

And colour the basket with pearl metallic copper and pearl metallic rust..

 

Now draw the criss cross patterns on the surface of the box with a felt tip pen ..But carefully continue the lines around the box to get a clear pattern..

 Now fill alternate check boxes with black color acrylic paint..

The finished look .. You can keep stationery, brushes,etc., in this holder..

Hope you all enjoyed this..See you soon with my next post..Have a nice day..

Fabric painting-DIY-Pink Flowers

"The purpose of Art is to wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life"-Pablo Picasso

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This Blog “Nena’s Arts and Crafts “is all about  arts, crafts and designs. Even a tiny work of arts and crafts we do gives us an incredible sense of self-realization and satisfaction of creating something from scratch with our own hands. All my posts will have the detailed explanation of every artwork and easy step by step DIY “Do It Yourself” procedure to assist you in remaking them …Go on…  Explore the Blog and Enjoy your life….

 
We all love flowers, colors and painting...So today my post is about painting colorful flowers on fabric. This paintings is done by using "Color filling and outlining" technique..This is the basic method of fabric painting. Mastering this technique is the key to painting on any fabric.

Pink flowers

This technique makes the painting look bright and colorful...The steps to draw these flowers are given below after a brief description of the things needed to paint it..


Things needed:

A clean and ironed Poplin Fabric:
Poplin is a fabric woven with criss cross ribs of any fiber such as cotton,wool,silk,etc., which gives it a strong texture and it prevents any paint from oozing down through it. White poplin works well with most acrylic or fabric colors but any color fabric is fine. Buy Poplin cloth here

Paints:
Many different colors of fabric/Acrylic paints.


Painting Brushes:

1. A Flat Brush No:2 or 3(For color filling)
2. A lettering Brush No:000 or 00(For outlining)

Short and Stiff bristles are preferable..

Painting Frame:A painting frame helps to tighten the fabric and holds it in the stretched form.


Other Essentials:

1. An old cloth for cleaning brushes in between changing colors
2. An old piece of card or paper to place under the fabric
3. Clean water
4. A mixing tray(Optional in case we want to mix certain colours)

Pattern:
A floral design pattern can be hand drawn with a pencil or transferred on to the fabric by tracing on a carbon paper. Today we are going to paint a hand drawn flower pattern.

Procedure:

Draw a flower pattern on the poplin fabric ..

Drawing the pattern

The completed pattern..

Completed pattern

Color Filling and Outlining Technique:
For this technique,we first fill the pattern with color and the we outline it with a dark color(usually black). For color filling, We use the flat brush, loaded with acrylic paints(directly from the bottle). We use the following colors for our painting..

1. Lemon yellow
2. Pink
3. Brown
4. Leaf green
5. Black(for outlining)

While filling the color on the fabric, move the brush slowly and firmly on the fabric to avoid splattering which is nearly impossible to remove from the fabric. Keep the water and brush cleaning old cloth 4 or 5 inches away from the painting to avoid accidental spots..
First let's paint lemon yellow filling..

Yellow Filling

Then comes outer petals.. Paint it pink.. and color the center part brown.

Pink and Yellow

Add leaves with leaf green color..

With green leaves

When its dry, we can use the thinnest lettering brush to outline the painting with black color.. We can also add some tiny detailing..



The finished painting looks like this ..

 
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Hope you all enjoyed this..See you soon with another artwork in my next post. Have a nice day..