Monday, April 27, 2009

Bird on a wire


My day today was consumed by these bird on a wire shirts.
In May I am setting up shop at The Urban Bird Festival at the Tracy Aviary.
The lady in charge of the events there found me on Etsy and wanted to know if I would like to sell my bird related items there, heck yeah! How fun! So I of course will have my usual things, but I have been trying to think of fun ideas just for this event. I thought of these and was super excited about them. I really wanted some things that would be inexpensive, I was thinking if I took my kids to this and they wanted a fun souvenir it would have to be something cheap.
These shirts I will be selling for $6, I would totally spend that amount, perfect!

I make these shirts with inexpensive Hanes shirts and spray paint. I've made pirate versions before and they have been very popular.
All I did was find an image of a bird I liked, cut it out of a scrap of paperboard like what a cereal box is made of. Then covered my work area (I did this outside) and layed my shirt down and placed my stencil where I wanted it and sprayed around it, soooo easy!
Then I let them dry, turn them inside out and wash them, and now you have an awesome shirt!
If you make any, I would always wash them inside out, I think it just helps it not fade so much.

The last picture I just thought looked cool, the bird on the left is my stencil after painting ALOT of shirts, and the one on the right is the excess paint.

1 comments:

dana said...

VERY cool idea. Inventive and clever. I love it!