Relax creatively - Fabric painting - Your fast & easy guide Number 2 - Fabric colouring in: Your fast & easy guide, #2
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Are you looking for new and effective ways to reduce stress and relax?
Fabric colouring in could be your solution!
What is fabric colouring in?
Adult colouring-in books are very popular because many stressed-out people value colouring in as being an easy way to relax.
Fabric colouring in – the new fabric-painting discipline – is also a very relaxing activity; however, compared with colouring in books it is:
- more creative, because we first have to develop a design idea, then create the design on the fabric, and finally colour in the design
- more productive, because we end up with a product we can use; for example, we can wear the clothes we’ve painted or dry our dishes using the colourful tea towel we’ve painted.
Fabric colouring in is your ‘thing’ if you are
- interested in trying a new way to relax that’s easy, creative and productive
- an ‘adult colouring-in book’ fan who wants to bring more creativity and productiveness to your colouring-in activities
- a fabric-painting beginner who’s eager to access the craft of fabric painting quickly and easily
- an experienced fabric painter who wants to enrich your expertise by adopting a more playful and experimental approach.
This book, Your fast & easy guide Number 2, is the second in the new series of guide books about fabric painting.*
The book wants to help you relax and have fun while playing around and creating colourful designs on fabric - without having to have any detailed knowledge or special skills.
While working on the book’s several easy-to-do example projects, you’ll learn how to apply the various fabric-painting techniques, simply by experimenting with and exploring the many possibilities of design creation and colouring in on fabric.
You’ll also be able to refer to a handy checklist, comprising both images and explanations of the supplies and preparations you need to organise before you can start any fabric-painting project.
By the end of the book, you’ll know for sure whether FABRIC COLOURIN IN is your new relaxation technique.
Have fun!
*If you’re looking for an overview of fabric-painting techniques and detailed information about the basic elements of fabric painting, you’ll find them in the first book in the series, Your fast & easy guide Number 1: The Basics.
And if you’d like to get deeper into the fabric-painting techniques, help is at hand in any or all of the three forthcoming books in my series. I’ll soon be publishing guide number 3: Stamping and following it with guide number 4: Stencilling and guide number 5: Freehand painting.
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Relax creatively - Fabric painting - Your fast & easy guide Number 2 - Fabric colouring in - Margot Krekeler
Welcome
Dear reader,
Have you ever heard the term ‘fabric colouring in’?
You haven’t? Well, don’t worry: you’re not alone most people haven’t heard about it – till now.
And actually, you can’t have known about it, because it’s something very new I’ve only recently ‘invented’ the concept!
I’m assuming, though, you’re familiar with the term ‘adult colouring-in book’?
And you mightn’t only know about that worldwide trend; you might be avidly applying yourself to colouring-in books?
The reason that adult colouring-in books are very popular is that many stressed-out people among us value colouring in as an easy way to relax.
What has fabric colouring in got to do with adult colouring-in books?
Apart from a couple of remarkable differences, using fabric items to colour in is very similar to using a colouring-in book.
The similarities
The main link between the two activities is the colouring in itself, because in both cases we make a design – an illustration or a pattern - more colourful.
Both types of colouring in are very relaxing.
The differences
An obvious difference between the two types of colouring in is that in one case the surface we paint on is a fabric item whereas in the other case we add colours to a page of a book.
The second, and main, difference is that fabric colouring in is not only relaxing - it’s also very creative and productive.
Why is fabric colouring in more creative and productive than colouring-in books?
Fabric colouring in is more creative.
Yes, we’re being creative when we’re colouring in a design on a book page because we’re creating something new and unique. We’re expressing our creativity by making very personal choices: deciding on our own colour combinations and applying our unique colouring-in style.
However, someone else has created the design the illustration or pattern is already there and all we have to do is open the book whenever we want to start colouring in.
We have to be more creative when we’re colouring in on fabric, because we first need to create the design! And accompanying that demand is a big portion of additional fun!
Various fabric-painting techniques such as stamping, stencilling and freehand painting offer flexible and easy ways of design-creation on fabric.
Fabric colouring in is more productive.
When we’ve coloured in illustrations on book pages, we’re left with colourful pieces of paper.
We can collect them, display them on a wall or show them to other people, but that’s all we can do with them.
When we’ve coloured in on fabric items, we end up with products that are of practical use; for example, we can wear the T-shirt we’ve embellished by colouring in our own design or carry our shopping home in the tote bag we’ve painted colourfully.
Might you, too, be able to use fabric colouring in to relax and be creative and productive?
You’re of course the only person who can answer that question – and you can’t be certain of your answer yet because you haven’t started doing fabric colouring in.
You’ll need to finish your first ‘fabric colouring in’ projects before you can determine whether creating colourful designs on fabric is your ‘thing’.
Give it a try, then!
I feel sure that when you’ve finished reading this guide book and worked on your own projects, you’ll have come to know how enjoyable and relaxing fabric colouring in is.
Have fun!
C:\Users\Margot\Google Drive\Enterprise MKO\Pictures\images for blog posts\2015\images published 2015\signature.jpgAn introduction to this book
Why is the book entitled Your fast & easy guide Number 2?
Your fast & easy guide Number 2: Fabric Colouring In is the second book in my series of guide books about fabric painting.
In the first book, Your fast & easy guide Number 1: The Basics, I introduce the basic components and techniques of fabric painting.
That book contains all the information a fabric-painting beginner needs in order to get started:
a description of the fabric-painting components and supplies as well as
an introduction to the fabric-painting techniques.
In each of the three following books I focus on only one fabric-painting technique: stamping, stencilling and freehand painting, respectively.
By concentrating on only one technique when you’re working through each book, you’ll be able to both deepen your theoretical knowledge and take your practical skills to a higher level.
This book you’re reading now, guide number 2, has a special role, as a bridge between the first book and all the other books.
Following the introduction of various fabric-painting techniques in the first book, this book wants to help you start using them easily and playfully - without needing to have either any detailed knowledge or any special skills.
It does so by using the fabric-painting techniques as ‘design-creation-tools’ for fabric colouring-in projects.
You’ll learn how to apply the techniques while you’re