spraypainting tshirts?
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- abstrakt
screw silkscreening, i wanna spray paint my designs on some shirts. anybody know how to make this work? i've heard if you use too much spray paint, the design will be rock hard when it dries. i don't want that. also is there some type of coating i should spray on it to make it not fade, etc.?
- rasko40
you can actually get little cans in art shops that are just for this... I've never tried them tho
- abstrakt0
i saw some on an online store, but they didn't have a lot of colors. they didn't even have black. i should check out Michaels or something though, thanks
- cloned0
good luck printing on dark shirts
i use several thin coats on mine
screen printing is better i use paint to "comp" my ideas
- Nathan_Adams0
a mate of mine does this. you need to mix the spray paint somehow with proper fabric paint, otherwise the paint just screws up. He usually just sprays it into a tray, mixes in the fabric paint, and then uses a roller over a stencil.
- mrdobolina0
exactly like Nathan was talking about
- cloned0
why not just roll on screen ink then with a stencil and iron between a towel with wax paper to cure it?
- cloned0
www.stencilrevolution....
mrdobolina
(Feb 28 05, 20:13)
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print up your very own Che Guevara shirt and jump off a cliff.nice link dob
- mrdobolina0
I could look around on that stencil revolution site all night.
I think scarabin had something to do with it (I think he mentioned it one time)
- mrdobolina0
I get paid for a small freelance gig this week and after alot of waiting around, I am finally going to buy some screenprinting supplies. I havent handprinted anything in what must be 8 years.
- cloned0
thrift store + spray paint + printer = cooler clothes for the thrift store
cheapest easiest way to sell your stuff
- agentfour0
you'll never get any real good result from spray paint on a tshirt. best off doin a stencil of paper, scan, print, film, expose and screenprint.
- mrdobolina0
yeah, on the stencil revolution site, someone mentioned that if you stretch the fabric it cracks really easily.
- cloned0
tis true but who wants it to look perfect nowdays?
nobody, absolutely nobody
- taragee0
i wantto try bleaching some
- agentfour0
i do
- mrdobolina0
me too, I dont like looking like an H addict. But to each his own.
TG did you see this?
- cloned0
i didnt say a shitty torn up shirt but most screenprinting done now days is distressed or cracked or obviously augmented in some way
even 1/3 of the shirts on threadless have some drippy spatty not quite perfect look to them.
i know you guys know what im saying
- taragee0
mdob yeah thats what im sayin!
- mrdobolina0
yeah clone, I dont think I could wear a t-shirt from threadless. Pink tighty t-shirts aint really my steez ;)
- abstrakt0
cool those tutorials are really cool. if i use fabric spray paint do i need to "cure" it somehow? like if i was going to sell the shirt in a store or something, would just spraying the fabric paint on be enough, or do i need another coat of something?