SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Tulip paintbrush pack
- Tulip fabric paints
- Jean jacket
- Projector (optional)
DIRECTIONS:
- Use a projector to project design onto jacket to trace the letters, and to give a rough outline for the flowers. If you don't have a projector, you can go freehand, or you can print out your quote, cut out the letters and trace them onto your jacket. You won't need the projector to paint your flowers.
- If you do choose to use a projector, just connect it to your computer and project your text onto your jacket.
- Hang jean jacket on the wall and then add four thumb tacks around where design would go so that jacket is smooth and wouldn't move around as you paint.
- Once text is projected onto jacket, paint on top of it with white.
- Option: keep projector on while painting the flowers so that you can get determine the placement of the flowers.
- Mix your paint. Here, there are four shades of pink and two shades of green. For the pink, mix in a little orange to give a peachy look. For the green, mix in a little brown for a more muted look.
- Start with your tiny outer flower and buds - just make little dots and ovals for these in different shades of pink, do this on either side of where your focal flower will go.
- Then start on your focal flower by painting petals in different shades to show dimension - darker in back, lighter in front. Use your darkest shade of pink for the center.
- Go back over all of your flowers and add little strokes of white and dark pink.
- Paint your foliage. Paint two larger leaves on the right side of your focal flower - dark in back, light in front. Then add branches sticking out around your focal flower in various shades of green. You just paint one long line, with little lines coming off of it.
- Add shading to your leaves.
- Take your smallest brush and paint stems coming from your focal flower going to your tiny outer flowers.
- Add dots of paint all around your floral design to give the illusion of lots of detail.
- Repeat these steps for your bottom flowers.
HACK:
- Paint the dots in the last step in groups of three, for added depth.