How to Prepare T-Shirts for Painting

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GRACE FRAGA: All right. So we're going to set up the stage for the painting. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yes. We're going to create a perfect, artistic atmosphere for us to work on. Number one, a nice flat-surface table. Again, it's very, very, very important that you make sure it's a nice length. This is a good length right here to work with. You don't need to be bending over too much. You don't want to get uncomfortable or you don't want a table that's up and you're just kinda like looking over it and reaching over it like a child reaching for a cookie jar. You want a reasonable and realistic workspace. GRACE FRAGA: Yes. CHANTELLE TIBBS: So, we're going to place the towel down... GRACE FRAGA: All right. CHANTELLE TIBBS: ...underneath the shirt first. GRACE FRAGA: So the table doesn't get dirty. All right. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Again, so this is fabric paint. If you're painting and you're doing this stuff and you have a business suit on like you. GRACE FRAGA: Oh, yeah. Then don't do it. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Yeah. Don't do it. GRACE FRAGA: But it's okay, I will anyway. CHANTELLE TIBBS: 'Cause it's not coming off ever. GRACE FRAGA: Oh. Well, thank you for the warning. CHANTELLE TIBBS: It will fade a long time from now. But it's fabric paint; it's not going off. Which is important in fabric paint, which is good actually 'cause you'll know it's not going to come off of your shirt. GRACE FRAGA: That's right. There you go. CHANTELLE TIBBS: So, now, I'll leave the shirt on top of the towel. So, the next step, you've guessed it. We have our little tweener. GRACE FRAGA: Nice. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Tweener. I call it a tweener. It's just a sassy word for between so I can put it between the two layers of the shirts so I'm not bleeding the paint through the shirt 'cause you don't want to push it down and realize you got two designs, one on the front and one on the back. GRACE FRAGA: Now, is there a reason why like if you want to make a bigger design than this then you would cut it a little bigger? Why did you cut it that size? CHANTELLE TIBBS: I cut it this size 'cause most of the Wear Me Naked designs are, like I said, they're very subtle. GRACE FRAGA: Okay. CHANTELLE TIBBS: So, this works for this. The one thing about this tweener that is actually no good but I actually--I use it 'cause I worked around it. You're going to make sure that your tweener is flat. You don't want it to have ridges or anything like that because the paint will come out in those ridges. [INDISCERNIBLE], unless you've been doing it a pretty long time like me and you just... GRACE FRAGA: You don't want to risk it. CHANTELLE TIBBS: Professionally, you don't want to risk it. You want to make sure, again, to also want to stretch it out as much as you can. With guy's shirts, you have a little bit of leeway. So do not do that unless the guy has really flashy pectorals to actually stretch out the material as much as a woman would because she has the breast [INDISCERNIBLE] and they-- GRACE FRAGA: Yes. And they stretch out. CHANTELLE TIBBS: You don't want that space between the paint. GRACE FRAGA: Exactly. CHANTELLE TIBBS: So, yeah. So now, we are ready to paint. GRACE FRAGA: Great. So, we have the brushes, the paint, the towel, the tweener and we're ready to rock and roll. So, that's coming up next.

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