We test everything you need to get a successful pour on fabric, including the best kind of fabric to pour on! Say Good Night by Joakim Karud (Royalty Free Music) goo.gl/YmnOAx / • Video Outtro theme: Butterflies in Spain by Souffle Art
I have painted acrylics on cotton. I think we used some sort of medium, maybe GAC900. I love painting, stamping with all sorts of items, drawing lines, used metallics, used stencils, etc. We always ironed bigger pieces of cloth of painted fabric. The fabrics were gorgeous. We cut them into smaller pieces, sewed pieces together with the sewing machine to make quilt tops. I always liked making more abstract, art quilts for wall hanging. Just thought you’d like to know.
I discussed this very problem with a mica powder and pigment provider online. I was advised to mix the mica first with an acrylic binder medium such as GAC 100 (or Liquitex gel medium),(until it resembled the higher viscosity acrylic paint found in tubes. Then to treat it just was you would tube paint, diluting it with pouring medium and water until it was the right consistency. This has worked for me. This binds the mica powder firmly to acrylic particles and makes it miscible with the medium or with other paint.
I enjoyed and learned from your experiments. I have made whole quilt tops where I painted on pieces of white silk organza without ironing. We were told to just wait two weeks for the paint to cure, so no washing for that period of time. We used Liquitex’s more fluid paint that comes in the little jars. After painting the little pieces we made a sort of mosaic picture or form with them. All the stitching was by hand in this class, and we didn’t have to worry about raw edges, the paint took care of that. More in the next comment.
You NEVER put an iron directly on painted or freshly dyed fabric. You need to use a teflon ironing sheet or a piece of light weight muslin between the iron and the painted fabric.
Thank you. You saved me so much time and paint with this demo. Actually I did a pour of acrylic paint and floetrol on denim. I did prep the denim with primer first and allowed it to dry. It came out nice. I have not washed it or put it through a test tho.
Sorry this is so long. Motor typing. Lol. I get excited by all the possibilities!!!!! Well you started it! What a great experiment! It never occurred to me to do it like that. Thank you! I’ll keep coming back, and promise not to write such long comments. Ha!
Would it have made any difference if the cotton fabric had been dampened first , or wet even , do you think ? So as to have allowed the paints to travel through the fibres and become absorbed/saturated more ???
truly appreciate your results. I'm still in the "learning to crawl" stage and Elmer's school glue is the only medium i have worked with. Would you consider wetting any of those substrates to assist in the capillary action of you paint?
Yes, that would help! Elmer's / PVA glues seem to soak through well enough, but personally I haven't gotten results that I like with those. I'm not saying it's impossible, but fabric pouring has been one of the most difficult pouring styles I've tried so far.
Hello I was wondering if you had ever tried denim fabric? Back in the 80s we painted on our denim jeans and our denim jackets. And come to think of it it was acrylic paint. After a couple years there was some wear and tear, but nothing drastic. But back then we didn't have the floetrol, this silicone, the glue all. Just curious to find out if those things would make it easier the paint more abstract designs like you would get on a dirty pour. Thank you take care and God bless Deb
Hi! I'm looking into doing t-shirts with the acrylic pour method, but I was thinking of trying to do only a contained square on the front of the shirt. I was just wondering if you'd recommend using a stabilizer or sew some sort of other backing behind the paint?Also for doing the pour on the tshirt, how you'd recommend to keep the back of the shirt from potentially getting soaked through paint all over it? Thank you for the awesome video and any tips you might be able to provide!!
What I really would like to try is to actually pour paint on some cotton and see how it behaves. Will there be cells? Who knows. Probably have to thin it a lot.I have been painting on a light weight (7 oz) unstretched canvas with a base coat of mediums with water. After it dried we could paint thinly on it using a wetting agent from Golden plus a lot of water. I hope we can stitch through it. I made a sample of three colors, light to dark. They are pretty, but will they work? I think so with a jeans needle - very big and tough.
Thanks for all the information about your previous experiments! From this test, and from playing with the liquitex medium a bit afterwards, I can confirm that cells are possible with this medium (and without silicone), but it is a little tricky. Next time I do a fabric pour, I'm going to thin the paint using extra liquitex medium, and maybe just a single drop of water. The mixture is just a bit too thick for my preferences, even thinned out at the recommended ratio from liquitex. Good luck with your stitching and future project ideas! Thank you for watching!
Absolutely! I keep the music credited in the description of each video: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud (Royalty Free Music) goo.gl/YmnOAx / ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SZkVShypKgM.html Outtro theme: Butterflies in Spain by Souffle Art
Hello, great video! I was wondering what the name is of the paint you used for the second row on the right with the Liquitex fabric medium non-water? Thank you in advance :)
I don't have any results for trying to wash the fabric. If you do pour on a t-shirt or other wearable item, I would recommend hand washing in cool water (at least the first couple times) to make sure the paint isn't in danger of crumbling off and getting deposited into a washing machine.
