October 14, 2004
Say it with bleach
. My artistic daughters are going to go nuts over this.
Think bleach-accented jeans (mirrored without the annoying entry questions here). Or perhaps you prefer to work in the Comet Liqui-gel medium. Or try one of these techniques using dark fabrics and bleach in a spray bottle.
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well okay - but only if I can do the little "circle-A" anarchy symbol.
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"Strange things are afoot at the circle-A"
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In the fiber-arts class I took in college (as the only non-art major there, it was a little weird), I ended up trying bleach soaking and, IIRC, doodling with bleach-containing bathtub scouring gunk. It's fun. I still have a wallhanging around somewhere; the fabric barely took the bleach soak and ended up with a spooky wispy effect. It's appealing in part because you're doing on purpose what is usually avoided like the plague. On another note, "bleach" is one of those words that looks more and more strange the more you look at it.
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This is why so many of us aren't millionaires. In high school we used to bleach our jeans, streaky-style (twist up our jeans and dunk them in a bucket of bleach solution, resulting in a tie-dye effect) but it never crossed my mind to use the bleach to make pictures or patterns. But why, why? I could have put those college years to much better use perfecting the bleach pen....
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"Add a quote like "Princess" or "Dazed and Confused" to your favorite t-shirt" A quote like "Princess"???
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bleach prints are cheap, easy and rock. making some of my "I've been voting not bush all my life" shirts that way. look very nice on black they even did it on queer eye.