After a failed attempt
at painting the fabric on this chair, I was ready to call it quits and throw it in the trash.
Having tried my hand
at painting fabric I can appreciate the accomplishment of this artist in making it look so convincing you think you're looking at the real thing.
Not exact matches
If your toddler sees you sewing or
painting clothes with
fabric paint, he or she may want to try his or her hand
at designing clothes.
If you want to get a bit fancier, get some inexpensive canvas sack
at a crafts store and decorate using
fabric paints and other craft products.
She's featured here, though, for her beautiful hand -
painted fabric which is pretty unique on Folksy (or
at least I can't find anyone else selling it!).
small tin buckets easy to find
at paint supply stores small cardboard
paint buckets also
at paint supply stores;
paint or cover with paper chinese food boxes most craft stores have these in a variety of colors plain paper sack with a drawing or stickers on the front and tied with a ribbon or a cardstock header stapling the bag closed plastic beach buckets check the dollar store for the best price terra cotta flower pots perfect for a garden theme; the kids can
paint these for a party craft too
fabric or felt bags with or without a drawstring large tin cans of course, make sure the edges are not sharp mini canvas totes bought or homemade cardboard boxes such as a cereal box, cut down and covered with paper or
painted; add a ribbon, string or wire handle baskets lots of inexpensive ones available
at thrift stores popcorn boxes available
at party supply stores Helpful Tips:
Head to the dollar store and grab a blank canvas pencil case and just like Almost Makes Perfect and have your child use
fabric paint to stamp a design all over the canvas so they can have their own personalized pencil case to use
at school this year.
When I
painted it I taped up the «
fabric» to keep it its original gold color thouch you can see it looks kinda stained... I may decide to
paint that a separate color
at some point.
Each month Waverly
at Walmart sends me a box of supplies and challenges me to create something with their
fabrics, ribbons, and / or
paint.
chesterfield tufted sofa — Wayfair coffee table — Birch Lane jute rug — Rugs USA cream sweater blanket in hutch — Target white trees in hutch — Gordmans wooden Noel — HomeGoods large ceramic pitcher on top of hutch — Wayfair small ceramic pitcher on top of hutch — Wayfair round basket on top of hutch — Joann
Fabric driftwood deer — HomeGoods tufted beige chair by hutch — Target blanket ladder — tutorial in my book gray and white plaid blanket on ladder — Target white burlap stockings — handmade wooden lamps — similar
at Wayfair glass lamp on side table — Target round wood tray on coffee table — Joss & Main birch log candle holders — HomeGoods velvet curtains — similar
at Pier 1 wall / trim
paint color — Du Jour by Valspar wooden horse —
Painted Fox white pom pom garland — Hobby Lobby board and batten wall treatment — tutorial here
When using latex you can buy
Fabric Medium
at the crafts store to add to the
paint.
I primed the lamp with a white spray
paint and then recovered the lamp shade with a bold floral pattern that I purchased
at JoAnn
Fabrics.
As far as work done,
at this point I've only returned to have the sealer
paint /
fabric protector / rust package attended to and I was very happy with how it proceeded.
The Latex - type
paint on the steering wheel started to peel, the
fabric on the seats started to bubble up and became loose, the A / C began ticking
at low fan speeds, the shift paddles failed (and were replaced under warranty), the transmission began to shift roughly and was brought to the attention of my dealership 2 times.
James Panero reviews six New York shows: Keith A. Smith: The
Fabric Works: 1964 — 1980
at Bruce Silverstein (through June 6), Karen Schwartz: Down the Rabbit Hole
at Life on Mars Gallery (through May 31), Mel Bernstine
at McKenzie Fine Art (through May 3), Graham Nickson: Spectrum
at Betty Cuningham Gallery (through May 22), Louise P. Sloane: Recent
Paintings at Andre Zarre Gallery (through May 9), and Arts in Bushwick: Making History
at Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn (through May 10).
Rauschenberg showed red
paintings at Charles Egan Gallery, many of which contained
fabric, images, and brushstrokes similar to those of Short Circuit.
Top lots
at Swann's auction last month included Faith Ringgold's «Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge,» 1988 (acrylic on canvas with
painted, dyed and pieced
fabric).
This mini-survey of Kim MacConnel's unstretched
fabric paintings from the 1970s, and a terrific one from 2004, is the first of four shows
at Salomon this spring collectively titled «American Responses: Pleasure, Reverence, Heart, Home.»
Yinka Shonibare, Black Gold, wall
painting with stretch
fabric attachments,
at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Among a selection of her small scale collage
paintings, you'll see three
fabric - based modular books she made for her recent exhibition
at the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia.
As an interdisciplinary artist Neckles - Ortiz has held residencies
at the Youlou Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation SHIFT Program, the Center for Book Arts, The
Fabric Workshop & Museum, and The Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture.
This event has been organized in conjunction with The Barnes Foundation's exhibition Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders.Nigerian - born, London - based Yinka Shonibare's first major Philadelphia exhibition since his artist residency
at the
Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2004 includes works of sculpture, photography,
painting, and installation, with a focus on themes of education, enlightenment, and opportunity.
Elaine Reichek creates
paintings from weavings, like Sheila Hicks, another bow to folk and decorative arts, while Vincent Fecteau's sculpture looks
at first glance like piled
fabric.
The trends seen
at this year's opening night were intriguing — tons of
fabric and textile - based work, like Verena Dengler's embroidered canvases
at Thomas Duncan and Laure Provost's spectacular tapestry
at MOT International; a pull towards representative
painting, like Marcel van Eeden's cake
painting at Clint Roenisch or Louise Bonnet's»60s - style oil
paintings of peculiar sad - sacks
at Mier Gallery; and any abstract work to be found was very multicolored, like William J. O'Brien's trippy plant - like
paintings at Shane Campbell and Stanley Whitney's vibrant grids
at Team Gallery.
«A pair of socks», he said
at the time, «is no less suitable to make a
painting than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and
fabric.»
For the Love of Gene Davis, 2014 Artist made
fabric sample book, study for piece, Gene Davis ephemera, pavement of Philadelphia Parkway
painted by Gene Davis, Life Magazine Installation
at Temple Contemporary, Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
During artist Vadis Turner's residency
at Materials for the Arts, she created an entirely new body of work called Storm Systems, an exhibition of abstract
paintings made from ribbon and
fabric.
Song Sung (2014)[detail], Georgina Pollard, 1.1 m x 2.4 m, house
paint and curtain
fabric, exhibited
at Eco Spirit (2014), Modern Arts Projects (MAP), Blue Mountains.
At once an abstract
painting (or two), a figure, a squeegeed monoprint on
fabric, a found object, a memory, a sculpture, this work has numerous points of entry.
The
painted cotton
fabrics shown
at the Amsterdam Art Fair still hold this suggestion of various natural processes, but on a much larger scale.
By advancing outwardly he risked pushing the viewer away, greeting them but
at the same time pressing and almost suffocating them with his seemingly impenetrable
fabric of
paint.
Its material character extends to empty clothing from Troy Michie, screen prints on Mylar and
fabric by Tomashi Jackson,
painted nudes with eyes for flesh by Didier Williams, velvet curtains for Unpacking Sameness by Christie Neptune, a nude ill
at home by Devin N. Morris, seeming copies after John Chamberlain by Kennedy Yanko, and African American twists on art history by David Shrobe.
In the 1960s Inokuma began to
paint works based on imagined aerial views of cities, reducing three dimensional topography to two dimensional patterns which
at once suggest the energy and visual complexity of the urban
fabric yet remain completely abstract.
Multimedia artist Anna Adler's action
painting workshops during her SPARC (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) residency
at MRHS (Morningside Retirement and Housing Services) in Upper Manhattan used canvases found in the warehouse, as well as
fabric, trim, artificial flowers, and other unique...
«In general, we are able to sustain our trademark of changing this space, partially by the materials we find
at MFTA... some obvious like monitors and slide projectors and mannequins, some more hidden like
paints,
fabrics, odds and ends.
Murillo works on his
paintings in a piecemeal fashion,
painting on various
fabric panels
at the same time that will come together
at a later date.
At Aferro, Murphy presents a thought provoking series of small
paintings, a site - specific silkscreened wall, and a handmade dress that her daughter, Morgan Fernandez, designed and sewed using Murphy's original
fabric.
Seamlessly integrating art and architecture, each work is destined to be embedded in the
fabric of the buildings when
painted over
at the end of the show.
Then came «Matisse: The
Fabric of Dreams,»
at the Met in 2005, in which some of the richly patterned
fabrics that Matisse used to fill and push forward the negative space between figures and furniture were displayed next to the
paintings themselves.
By the early 1970s, his trompe l'oeil
paintings of
fabric - covered still lifes were being featured
at Documenta and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian
painting, while delicate
fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look
at.
In a 1999 interview conducted
at SFMOMA, Rauschenberg described his decision to cover the canvases with the colored
fabrics as a deliberate effort to break away from his previous three monochromatic series (Black
paintings, White Paintings, and Red Pa
paintings, White
Paintings, and Red Pa
Paintings, and Red
PaintingsPaintings).
At six metres high, the Wind Sculptures have a majestic presence, with brightly coloured,
painted surfaces to replicate the patterns of Dutch wax batik
fabrics.
At six metres high Shonibare's Wind Sculptures have a majestic presence, with brightly coloured,
painted surfaces to replicate the patterns of Dutch wax
fabrics.
In stark contrast, in one of the special shows
at the fair, veteran US - based Ouattara Watts, who has shown
at the Whitney Museum in New York and Venice Biennials, features 18 new
paintings bursting with colour and layered in
fabrics and objects in his version of Neo-Expressionism.
While on the West Coast, she created a new body of work that was shown this past summer
at L.A. gallery, The Cabin; «Tropicana» continued Self's investigation of the black female body through figurative collages composed of
paint,
fabric, and dry leaf.
Sidival Fila in his first solo exhibition in France, that is on presentation
at the Galerrie Jérôme Poggi Gallery presents 10 monochrome, pleated and sewn
painting works (black - yellow - ivory) made from
fabrics he collects
at his workshop
at the monastery of San Bonaventura.
Phyllida Barlow, TIP, 2013, timber, steel, spray
paint,
paint, steel mesh, scrim, cement,
fabric, varnish, 7 × 9 × 27 m, installation view
at Carnegie International, Pittsburgh.
The 80 - year - old Hicks, an American in Paris since 1964, and before that a student of Josef Albers and a classmate of Eva Hesse
at Yale, weaves, sews, spins, braids, wraps and twines
paintings, wall hangings and sculptures of dizzying beauty out of every imaginable
fabric.
untitled: GIG [detail], 2014,
fabric, paper, cord, timber,
paint, dimensions variable, installation view
at Hauser & Wirth Somerset