Make a unique print by cutting up a potato or sponge, and use it to stamp on a material of your choice.
I chose le potato.
This one had grown poisonous rootlings, so I didn't feel too guilty about using it for something other than food.
The other nice thing about le potato is that if you mess up with one end, you have a back-up.
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I decided to make a star. Mostly because it's not tremendously difficult to do.
Here is the t-shirt, awaiting its fate.
No, that's not doom you smell. It's bleach. I thought it could be interesting to use bleach rather than paint.
Meadow-y fresh!
Firstly, you dip le potato stamp into the bleach. Not for too long. The stamp doesn't absorb too much liquid before you get to the shirt.
Secondly, stamp, re-bleach, repeat.
I like that black shirts bleach to orange. <3
This is pre-wash. I threw it into the washing machine with detergent and washed it on cold cycle.
And this is how it turned out. I really like it.
Tips:
1. Put a garbage sack inside your shirt or the bleach will run through and you'll have a mirror pattern on the back.
2. Wash immediately in cold water.
3. Do this somewhere with plenty of air ventilation.
4. In the past, Carroll and I tried to bleach something with gel bleach (the kind that "doesn't splash"). While this is very considerate for laundry, it doesn't actually seem to bleach much color out of fabric. I don't know exactly what it's doing for your whites, but it definitely doesn't work for art projects.
5. I think that le potato works better for this than a sponge would because le potato is much less absorbent. Less absorbency=less bleach on your hands.
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