Project 8: Lightning T-Shirt

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Materials:

• T-shirt
• Acrylic paint
• Fabric medium

I'm somewhat obsessed with lightning motifs. The design for this shirt has been in my head for a while; I knew it was more suited for a DIY project then to waste my time looking for a version for sale.

It was fairly simple – I marked off the shape in masked tape, mixed the paint and medium, and went at it. After it was all dry, I hand washed the shirt, roughing it up a bit in the water to eliminate some of the paint's stiffness.

The pictures don't pick it up well, but the blue has some silver mixed in for a sparkly metallic finish. I also like the irregularities in paint color and line. I'm all about the irregularities.