My infancy had not blinded me with the artistry of my father. Art was introduced to me a long time ago through a chaotic environment as how it seems to be in my childhood. Though appreciating, unknowingly, there are things around the household that somehow served as my crawling arena. Those were best described as white canvasses, pure blank, and express nothing to my sight. It could be a regular size manila paper, glossy cartolina, woody cork board, a six-meter length tarpaulin sack, just a cloth or the most forbidden galvanized iron plain sheet for sign boards. Thus, art within me started to grow with my only mentor, my father. As far as I can remember, one thing that best reminds me about my learning moments is a picture of me sitting just a meter away from the artist. The basics he chronologically instruct and demonstrate were quiet so complicated so he would always command or even throw harsh words to nail me on the seat from the chalk lines, to scratches and so on. Like situation had always left me eating my three whole meal seated beside his work. “Yeah, from early sunrise to sunset, or even midnight time.” My papa first handed me a not so ordinary brush for lettering when I was fifteen…I can remember earning one tenth of what they're paying him every streamer...Urk, I didn’t notice myself talking too much about my father that I forgot about the main niche for this particular site. Do you want to know more about his story? Look for it among the linked sites below. That’s a gem like task for you.hehhe
No one is born with a paint brush in their hand, everyone learned from scratch at some stage. A look at the various ways to approaching the creation of a painting, none of which is better or more correct than another but rather a matter of personal preference and technique.
What I want to share with you at this point of time is how to make a simple creation with paints. Believe me saying this to you. Even a toddler, he or she just needs to be guided so to avoid a not so good circumstance to happen, can absolutely express an artist nature through textile painting. So consciously or unconsciously you may.
Textile painting-simply defined as fabric painting, staining or stamping using acrylic paints.
For a good start, prepare these materials:
Any of these:
Plain Cloth
Unprinted Shirts
Batik Fabric
More…
For decoration:
Acrylic Paint
(I recommend the name TULCO)
Paint Brush
No more…
Art is an expression…
Expression of freedom…
Limitless…
Do your thing
Or
Leave the task to the toddler and expect that he will leave the cleaning task to you after …
Working time!
My textile painting workshop at WVSU with the Dinagyang novelty contest head artist Mrs. Shyla Barrera. She is also my Arts Craft instructor.





After two hours of work we have set aside our near finish products for drying.
My work...jeje...shirts in black with the wingy thing and the landscape on the yellow one...
The flowered white shirt is so cute. Cool colors. That was done with rubber stamps..
Good day:)dp