My husband has had this plain white cap for a while now and one day while we were out with friends, I had the idea to paint his cap. I then proceeded to google and found that hand painted caps are a thing! Who knew! I asked him what he would like on a cap and he picked a Sharingan.
I have worked with fabric paints before but that was almost 10 years ago! So, I went to the store and bought a few basic colors. They are pretty easy to use. The colorless extender helps in blending and I usually use a little bit of water if I feel the paint is too thick to do the outlines.
As usual, I started out with a pencil sketch. A geometric compass is very handy when you need those perfect circles. :)
I started with the center of the eye and worked outwards. The color is pretty opaque on white surface. One coat was enough.
I didn't want to leave the white as is around the eye. So I decided to give it a gray/black/white background. Even though the background was fun, it took way longer than I expected. But I think the background makes it look complete.
Usually on fabric, once the painting is dry you iron the back side of the painting to heat set it. That way its washable and the paint wont come off. On a cap, the iron was out of question, so I used a hair drier and heated the inside of the cap. Hopefully that's enough!
At the end of it, I have an ecstatic husband who wants me to paint another cap for him. :)
I have worked with fabric paints before but that was almost 10 years ago! So, I went to the store and bought a few basic colors. They are pretty easy to use. The colorless extender helps in blending and I usually use a little bit of water if I feel the paint is too thick to do the outlines.
As usual, I started out with a pencil sketch. A geometric compass is very handy when you need those perfect circles. :)
I didn't want to leave the white as is around the eye. So I decided to give it a gray/black/white background. Even though the background was fun, it took way longer than I expected. But I think the background makes it look complete.
Usually on fabric, once the painting is dry you iron the back side of the painting to heat set it. That way its washable and the paint wont come off. On a cap, the iron was out of question, so I used a hair drier and heated the inside of the cap. Hopefully that's enough!
At the end of it, I have an ecstatic husband who wants me to paint another cap for him. :)
