Fabric Painting - Bored of Painting on Paper? Start Painting on Surfaces

By Murtaza Habib

You might have painted on the paper several times.

However, with fabric painting you will have fun painting on different materials.
You can use your painting skills on anything right from clothes, curtains, cushion covers or any other material that will enhance its beauty due to painting.

Just take an old outdated cloth, use your artistic skills out there and instantly transform it into a highly fashionable piece in a blink.

Do you know that cotton is the best material where fabric painting can be done perfectly well?
However, silk clothes is also suitable as such. If you want to try out fabric painting on other types of clothes all you need to do is just take a small piece of that cloth and try fabric painting out there to see whether the finishing of the paint is perfect.

It is important to note that the cloth that you are using for your fabric painting has a tight weave...

- Reason being, the colour seeps out through the fabric which does not give it a perfect look in loosely woven clothes.

Many clothes when they are new have a bit of sizing, which in turn does not attach the fabric painting to that cloth.

To solve this problem make sure that you wash the cloth before you do fabric painting on them.
Here's an easy way to test whether fabric painting is suitable for a particular type of cloth...

- Just drop water on that cloth and see whether the water gets soaked up inside that cloth or not, if it gets then it is a good piece where you can comfortably use fabric painting.

The above tips will surely help you to make your cloth absolutely safe when it comes to applying fabric painting and come out with a mind blowing artistic experience. Make sure you get started today.

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