greeting travels

It’s my birthday and I get to draw what I want

Made another bleach shirt for a Christmas gift ⭐️

The materials I used

Paint brushes / something to pour bleach in

Bleach (I used low splash bleach)

Walmart sweatshirt (it’s about 10$ )

Prisma white pencil

(My reference photos for the shirt)

I started with drawing the stencil on the shirt using a white prisma pencil (crayola wouldn’t draw on the material) someone in the reboots said that you could use chalk but it might be harder to do details

Once I drew out the stencil I just painted the design with the bleach.

If you want it to be more of a paler grey color leave it on longer if you like the yellow leave it on for a shorter time. I let the bleach set in the sun when I was done for about an hour.

Rinse it off with the hose or sink before washing it to make sure all the bleach is off. If you wash it before rinsing it the bleach could stain other spots.

Things I learned by messing up

Don’t use brushes you love there is a chance the brushes won’t survive

It helps to draw out the shirt design before starting so you can visualize how it’ll look

Don’t leave the brushes in the bleach when not using them. They might fall apart

Bleach spreads so less bleach on your brush helps keep it from spreading the lines you want to keep

Do the bleach painting outside if you hate the smell of bleach I didn’t smell it to much while painting on the porch

Don’t bleach paint in closed areas the fumes are bad

You can go back and rebleach spots after the first wash if you are unsatisfied with the colors I went back and bleached about 3 times

It’s really fun once you get into it and I hope I can see some of your shirts if you make one.

Finally Finished the back of the shirt it isn’t perfect but I like it

Finish with the front and sleeves gonna work on the back on my days off this week

god gave me the ability to create so im just gonna make stuff that i wanna