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Textile/Fabric Art Projects

Calico Bag - Pop Art

Materials:

Calico Bag, Printing Foam, Ballpoint Pen, Dual Fabric Paint & Scribbles Paint Pens

How to Paint a Pop Art Design on a Calico Bag:

1. Choose your subject. Discuss different ways of replicating an image to create an art piece. Look at and discuss Andy Warhol’s Mona Lisa 1963 and Marilyn Diptych 1962, screen-printed images. Students might choose a pop or film star as their subject or an object they would like seen replicated.

2. Draw the subject of your choice on an A6 sheet of Drawing paper, keeping the design as simple as possible.

3. Place the drawing over a piece of Printing Foam, hold it in place whilst you trace over the drawing with a Ballpoint Pen.

4. Take away the paper and use a Ballpoint Pen to go over the lines directly on the Printing Foam.

5. Place a few sheets of newspaper inside a Calico Bag.

6. Roll the Dual Fabric Paint onto the Printing Foam with a Foam Roller.

7. Place the wet Printing Foam down onto the Calico Bag and press the back of the Printing Foam with your hand. Peel away the Printing Foam to expose the print.

8. Repeat this step with either a different colour or repeat the image in the same colour to cover the entire front surface of the bag.

9. Touch up the background colours with a brush and Dual Fabric Paint or select parts of each image to highlight with a different colour.

10. When dry the Calico Bag may be ironed to fix the paint.

11. Lines might also be highlighted using Polymark Paint Pens.

 

 

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