Painting on t-shirt is total fun and i'm going to explore it further. If you want to give it a try to, here are few tips, so it will be easier for you (those are appropriate when you are going to paint with brush directly, without stencils):
- prepare your t-shirt, just the way you would normally do with a canvas. Wash it out, let it dry, and then paint over the area of your design with fabric paint few times (i was using middle value mixture of black, white and painting medium). i used 4 coats like that, drying them with hairdryer between every coat
- after 24h iron painted area having your iron set up on 1 dot through some thin paper. Do that in well ventilated room, because fabric paint (at least the one i used) tend to evaporate some binder stuff. When i did that first without proper ventilation i had a big headacke later on. Also do not iron before 24h, or some parts of the paper may stick into the paint, and it may be hard to remove them
- after that you can start painting normally. Prepared t-shirt is much easier to paint on. If you need transparent effects, better use painting medium then water.
- when your painting is finished, again wait 24h and iron it.
