Dreamcoat Part Two: Hand-painted Motifs

[labricoleuse]

There's a second part to the surface design adventures of Jen Caprio's costume design for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: hand-painted appliques! (The first part of the process, the digital textile design of the collection of twelve background fabrics, was described in this prior post hereRecall if you will Jen's design for the coat,

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[ladycelia]

68 because that's what the coat takes, or 68 so that there are spares for later coats?

[labricoleuse]

68 breaks down (IIRC, and not checking the spreadsheet to confirm i admit) as 48 for the primary coat itself, plus 20 for the duplicate prop-coat that gets "torn to pieces" as part of the show. If any later coats get made, more will have to be created.

[outinthestorm]

Your posts are always so interesting!
(I'm still mulling over that bias dress - I think Ihave most of it sorted, i just have to toile it up!)
Which heat-set textile paints did you use?

[labricoleuse]

For the motifs here? Jacquard Airbrush Color in Opaque Black. I did samples with a bunch of different products, but that product yielded the best line-quality.

I think because its consistency is so runny (since it's meant to run through an airbrush!), it allowed for more variation in the painting. If I moved the brush slowly, it soaked into the weave and bled a bit, whereas if i moved it quickly, it stayed on the surface of the satin and produced a visible brush-stroke.

So i could paint the "stained glass" lines with the kind of blobby variation of actual window-leading, then put in the details with the surface-painterly quality of, well, surface paint on a piece of window glass.