The DIY Adventure

The DIY Adventure

You're gonna need paints to start painting. It's simple. Fabric paints are expensive, so use acylics instead. Go Daiso at IMM. Acrylic paints in tubes or squeeze bottles. Then spend a tad more cash on Textile Medium. Available at Art Friend or Spotlight. Mix one part acrylic paint to two parts textile medium or follow instructions on bottle. There you have, fabric paint! After painting, seal colours with fabric sealer. Follow the drying instructions. You can bet your life that the colours will not come off.


Oh look! I've got ketchup and mustard all over the slip-on shoes! Looks so yucky. So I added this dark green to it:

A blur close-up. Sorry, can't help it. But I think you can roughly see the darker splatters. The real life ones look much better. I don't think they're all that photogenic. Now I present you with 'Frog on Lilypad'.

The alignment's a little off-set, but I think it's still pretty all right for a 3-hour artpiece. Rough on the edges, I definitely have that much more room for improvement. There's a plain white design on the front, but then it's damned ugly cos of a slight case of vandalism a while ago. I hadn't planned on the frog, though. It just jumped out from nowhere. Serious!

Once again, I think the real life one looks better.

You know the thing that the sealer does is, well, seal in the colours and all, but eventually, it makes the artwork have a stiff and plasticky feel to it. I don't know how to deal with that. It especially becomes obvious when you take public transport.

SBS buses have this leathery seats. You sit on it, your artwork presses against the seat. After a few stops, you lift your butt of the seat and you feel the artpiece peeling off the surface. The same goes for the MRT seats. If you're vigorous enough, it'll sound like undoing a velcro strap. The surfaces adhere slightly.

Oh yes, on the MRT seats, I couldn't slide my butt out towards the edge of the seat.

That's why I refrain from sitting down on public transport. But when I do sit down, I will be as discreet as possible when getting up. Furthermore, with nice pieces like these, why cover them up by sitting down when you should be standing up so people can marvel at the wondrous sight?

Talk about nice butts...