Fun with bleach (X-post from my journal)

[moem]

Yesterday we had fun at the local hackerspace, bleaching patterns onto T-shirts, using hand cut stencils. Here's what I made.



My three shirts hanging out to dry. I like all three of them.




This one is Domo Kun, a Japanese cartoon character. I managed to make his teeth lighter than the rest.




Plesiosaurus! Turned out very nice on an army green shirt; you can usually not predict the colour but this sand hue is nice.




Same stencil reused in a different way. There are some flaws because this one took a long time to bleach and the bleach soaked through the masking paper and made some pinkish stains. Oh well. I still like it.

Comments

[killing_rose]

Pretty!

[moem]

Thanks!

[redsixwing]

Ooh! I like the plesiosaur with fireflies. :D

[moem]

They were intended as a starry sky, but sure, I'll take fireflies... why not!

[antisocialite_forum]

Woah! I didn't know you could do that. o.o Were you following a guide?

- DK

[moem]

I followed what I remembered from several guides on Instructables. This one is decent: https://www.instructables.com/id/Bleach-Stencil-Shirt/

I did dilute the bleach with 50% water. I used stencils made from sticky paper (Domo Kun) and cardboard (plesio). To make a cardboard stencil stay in place, you can spray it with just a little spray glue and let it dry a few moments. I used a spray bottle (meant for watering plants) to spray the bleach and dunked the shirts in water as soon as I liked what I saw. That's about it.

[lusentoj]

The green dinosaur one looks cool!

[moem]

Thank you, I'm happy with how it turned out.