I made the galactic rib cage shirt graphic with a freezer paper stencil
I drew the bones on freezer paper, roughly tracing an existing rib cage shirt I had
Freezer paper has a plastic backing--the purpose is to make it waterproof, but someone discovered that it's just right to make a temporary iron-on adhesive, leading to the idea of freezer paper stencils. Draw or print (ink jet, do not put this stuff trough a laser printer) a line art image on the paper side (so no need to reverse it), cut out the parts of the image that you want to put on the fabric, then use a hot iron to tack the pieces in place. Since the freezer paper sticks completely down, the edges will stay crisp as you add paint. (In my admittedly limited experience, it doesn't stick as well to fabrics with a high synthetic content.)
Use a sponge/foam brush to dab the paint onto the exposed fabric. I use acrylic paint, and only recently finally got fabric medium, which allows the paint to stay more flexible when it dries. Even without fabric medium, the paint won't necessarily crack if you keep the application light enough, in my (again, limited) experience
When everything's dry, the freezer paper can easily be peeled off
For this shirt, I started by dabbing on splotchy white, followed by various pastel colors, then did a layer of spatters using an old toothbrush, hoping for a cosmic nebula look. I let everything dry thoroughly before removing the freezer paper.
I also pressed the painted areas through baking parchment paper, and also from the back, before finishing the shirt
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