Painting on Levi Jackets/Tinkerbell

I wanted to give a friend something they can't buy, artistic and can be worn all at the same time. So I painted her favorite Disney character Tinkerbell on a nice "Levi" type jacket (blue jean, cotton canvas jacket).

Supplies: Slightly faded Levi or other Jean Jacket, Acrylic fabric paints (Michael's or other craft store), fabric paint/dye sticks, iron and ironing board, plain blank paper, fine art brushes, fabric art transfer pen(s)

Once I identified an image I began by tracing the image onto tracing paper (could just draw it but wanted to save time and spend more time on the painting part) and then reversing image to add thin black transfer marker lines. This done, and after preparing jacket (canvas) area with a primer coat of whitewash (watered down white acrylic fabric paint), I ironed linear image onto jacket (sorry no pics of these steps).

I next proceeded to add another base coat with Fabricfun Pastel Dye Sticks by Pentel (Michael's crafts). I covered with paper and ironed again to seal.

You can stop here if you want a faded look, but this is where I add acrylic fabric paint to get my finished painted look. The previous steps help seal the "canvas" for your final paint layers. As you can see by the pics, you can paint as you would like. I went for a glow and shaded final look with violet Neuvau florishes in the background. This final phase doesn't need ironing.