I made a thing!
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imadeathing community, promoting non-traditional fan-creations.
I posted there a few days ago, http://imadeathing.dreamwidth.org/2739.html but wanted to make a post with a little more information about what I did and how I did it.
My original plan was to make a Tardis prom dress. I had found the dress at a thrift store for a ridiculously low price and had the images printed out to project on it and everything. But then life got crazy, and also one of the SPN jackets that I'd previously sold came back that it was a child's size large and didn't fit the person it was bought for so I had to make a replacement, so while I was at it, I made another whole batch of the Devil's trap jackets.
For the jackets, the first challenge is finding the right jackets. They have to have the princess-style seams on the back, instead of the horizontal yoke seam. Next is laundering. Wash, dry, iron, to get the starch and thrift-store funk out.
I then take the jacket, put it on a hanger and then I put the cardboard lid of a banker's box inside the side the painting is going to be on and pin it in with straight pins. This gives me a flat surface to work on, and for the shoulder-roundness of the jacket to cup around.
Then I hang it on the wall and use my trusty opaque projector and shine the devils trap onto it. For dark denim I trace with white chalk. For light denim or suede, I use a 30% gray marker because it's much easier to correct errors than a black marker. I just sketch out the outer line of the star and the circle and the symbols. Every jacket is different, in the size and shape of the 'canvas' I have to work with, so the placement, size and angle of the trap is very carefully considered.
Next, I use 1/8" auto-body masking tape to lay out the star. This is the point where I decide how the points of the star will interact with the circle, or if I'm doing anything different with the over/under Celtic-knot effects on the star.
I use Liquitex acrylic paint and fabric medium for the painting. The star is masked off but everything else is painted freehand over the chalk marks. Sometimes an Oops has to be incorporated into the design.
My favorite glyph to draw is the little bow-legged one I call Jensen.
It usually takes 3-4 layers of paint to get a good strong white.
The last step is heat-setting, and then putting it on my Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/JanellyArts?section_id=11228147
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imadeathing community, promoting non-traditional fan-creations. I posted there a few days ago, http://imadeathing.dreamwidth.org/2739.html but wanted to make a post with a little more information about what I did and how I did it.
My original plan was to make a Tardis prom dress. I had found the dress at a thrift store for a ridiculously low price and had the images printed out to project on it and everything. But then life got crazy, and also one of the SPN jackets that I'd previously sold came back that it was a child's size large and didn't fit the person it was bought for so I had to make a replacement, so while I was at it, I made another whole batch of the Devil's trap jackets.
For the jackets, the first challenge is finding the right jackets. They have to have the princess-style seams on the back, instead of the horizontal yoke seam. Next is laundering. Wash, dry, iron, to get the starch and thrift-store funk out.
I then take the jacket, put it on a hanger and then I put the cardboard lid of a banker's box inside the side the painting is going to be on and pin it in with straight pins. This gives me a flat surface to work on, and for the shoulder-roundness of the jacket to cup around.
Then I hang it on the wall and use my trusty opaque projector and shine the devils trap onto it. For dark denim I trace with white chalk. For light denim or suede, I use a 30% gray marker because it's much easier to correct errors than a black marker. I just sketch out the outer line of the star and the circle and the symbols. Every jacket is different, in the size and shape of the 'canvas' I have to work with, so the placement, size and angle of the trap is very carefully considered.
Next, I use 1/8" auto-body masking tape to lay out the star. This is the point where I decide how the points of the star will interact with the circle, or if I'm doing anything different with the over/under Celtic-knot effects on the star.
I use Liquitex acrylic paint and fabric medium for the painting. The star is masked off but everything else is painted freehand over the chalk marks. Sometimes an Oops has to be incorporated into the design.
My favorite glyph to draw is the little bow-legged one I call Jensen.
It usually takes 3-4 layers of paint to get a good strong white.
The last step is heat-setting, and then putting it on my Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/JanellyArts?section_id=11228147
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