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Tue, Jun 2 2009

Painting fabric in a bag

Over the next couple of weeks, I want to turn our focus to fabric painting. Now that it’s getting warmer, this is a wonderful activity to do, maybe on your picnic table or on a sunny porch table.

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Painting your fabric in a plastic bag is a great technique to choose when you want a surprise: you never know what you’re going to end up with when you let everything swirl around together in a bag. So rip off a length of plain muslin and gather up your acrylic paints, small cups, water, and oh yeah…a gallon sized plastic bag.

Step by step instructions

You can see what I used this piece of cloth for here

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