Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: tshirt

Made with freezer-paper stencil method, spraypaint, and a Flickr Commons image (see below). Beatriz Costa (1907-1996) was a Portuguese actress and singer in the 1930s.

Okay, I didn't make the shirt itself, but I reverse-appliqued onto it, just to try the technique. The lettering looks better in person, but it's still very handmade looking, in a good way?!?! blogged here: pennamite.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/accomplished/

My first attempt at reverse applique--because I needed a t-shirt for the season ahead. I think I need a better camera to capture the stitching, because it's the same color as the t-shirt. The underlying jersey fabric is also cut from an old black t-shirt.

To make my reverse-applique Obama shirt, I printed the word OBAMA in 100pt outline font, and cut out the letters (don't worry about the middles of the O, B, and A's right now). I used a small amount of undiluted white acrylic paint to stencil the word onto a thrifted blue Geoffrey Beene 3/4 sleeve t.

I needed another Obama t-shirt, so I used the same stencil and applique procedure as I did for my first one.