Sustainable

Uplifting

Color Filled

Session welcomes Non-Artist’ & Creative’s

Oct 24, 2022 7-8pm EST

$10 tickets

Famous Harlem Artist, Aleathia Brown will teach you how to paint on sustainable fibers CUT from home. YOU will be cutting a small rectangular primed and painted swatch of fabric.  These can come from a cotton button down shirt, an old bed sheet or some unused denim. By repurposing we make art sustainable on a small wearable frame-worthy miniature fabric.

With a whimsical silhouette and 3 colors that tell a beginning, middle and end visual story, participants will make a wearable art with purpose. You can flow in an abstract color-filled way.

The patch that YOU create will have color and pizzazz and a silhouette or two. We will use acrylic screen paint so that each patch is a washable, wearable, frame-worthy miniature masterpiece welcoming creatives or non-artists.

If You are unable to participate in the Live session

a link will be sent  and You can watch at Your convenience

Workshop Notes:

Select 3 colors that tell a story

Examples:

• Red for the passion I have for living

• Copper for the healing abilities it has

• Purple for power of royalty

Suggested material to paint on:

• A cotton Sheet

• Old button down cotton shirt

• Jeans

• Cut into a rectangle 3.5″ x 4.5

• Finish the edges to prevent unraveling

Supply List:                                                                     

• Speedball  Screen Printing acrylic paint                                                       
• Gesso small jar or tube for acrylic paint (it acts as a primer so paint sits on top rather than soak through)                       Black, White (you select 3 colors that tell a story in addition)                         
• Round nylon paintbrushes #01, 02, 04
• Water cup & bottle water(2)  one cup for water, 2nd larger container empty for dirty water,  fill a recycled bottle with water
•  Rags use from the fabric from swatch or paper towel (to dry/clean brushes)
• Masking Tape                                                                                                          
• Fabric repurpose from: a button down cotton shirt, bed sheet or old denim (cut into a 3.5″ x 4.5″ rectangle)
• Suggestion: take rectangle fabric to cleaners and have edges finished so it doesn’t unravel or fold over and sew edges.

For more information visit https://www.girlsnitelive.com/event/a-patch-of-color-learn-to-paint-on-fabric/