I recently had a customer request a custom shirt to wear to his areas of the lion. So now I have a black and white line drawing
high school reunion. The customer supplied the image. Origi- and a color photocopy.
nally there was a cub with the lion, but the customer asked that The shirt is placed on the shirt board and the image (from the
I remove it and only put in the adult male. His high school colors line drawing) is projected onto the shirt. I draw only the impor-
were maroon and white he asked that I incorporate that into tant reference lines and placement lines. No need to draw ev-
the design, as well as the City and State abbr. He of course erything, you are just going to be painting over it. Here is a tip,
waited till the last minute to give me the order. So, this is a quick I do not use a lead pencil to draw on my shirts when doing this
version of doing this type of work on a T. type of painting I use watercolor pencils. Matching the color of
I photocopied the original photo of the lion and cub. From there I the pencil as close as I can to the color I will be using. Works
put the image in my computer and made an outline of the main pretty well since the watercolor blends into the airbrushing.
I have the drawn the image on the shirt Now the entire image with the burnt The background was left up to me except
lightly with the pencil. I hope you are umber work is finished. All of this work for the color, I decided on this one. So I
able to see the sketch. Before painting is done with daggers, dots and line taped off the rips or cracks whichever
begins I give it a light coat of GAC900 work. No masks are used at this time. you choose to call them with blue tape
and heat press the shirt. This gives the Paint only what you see. This process and then covered the remaining shirt with
paint a base and gives a smooth sur- took approximately one hour to com- tape to protect it. I also added the letter-
face to begin painting on. I have also plete. Be careful to follow the flow of the ing in and sprayed the first coat of color.
started laying out the design using light fur. This step is important, as it is the Because of the image I am painting, I am
burnt umber. I like this color because base of all of the future work. not overly concerned about masking off
it is between the darkest and middle the lion since more work will follow with
tones of the photo. the mane and that will stray into the back-
ground. You may also notice that some of
the background color is incorporated into
the image.
Leaving the background alone to dry a bit
I sprayed the entire lion with a med. to light
coat of yellow, Changing to a mix of raw sien-
na to add a bit more red tone and more of
the hair strands in the mane. The dark in the
mane and other areas is not black it’s a mix
of paynes gray, burnt umber and purple. The
areas that look white are not; it is a mix of the
cadmium yellow, sienna and white. Fig. 5 is
just an over all look for you too see.
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