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How to Make Watercolor Tropical Art on Fabric

August 1, 2017 by Jessica Vanderveen 6 Comments

Hello! My name is Jessica from The Vanderveen House. I blog about home renovations, DIY projects, furniture makeovers, and whatever else I’m working on at the moment.

Today I’m going to show you how to make watercolor tropical art using fabric and watercolor fabric paints. This is such an easy project, and can be used in so many different ways to create all kinds of art and home decor items!

How to make watercolor tropical art on fabric using Dye-na-flow fabric paint from Jacquard.

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Supplies

  • Fabric (I used outdoor fabric, but you can choose whatever you like)
  • Tropical pictures
  • Dye-na-flow watercolor fabric paints (cranberry red, chartreuse, and turquoise)
  • Jacquard water-based resist
  • Squeeze bottle applicator
  • Paint brushes
  • Spray bottle

Tropical watercolor art with Jacquard products

Step 1: Trace Your Pictures Onto Fabric Using The Resist

Find some pictures you would like to use for your tropical wall art. I chose to use a pineapple, a flamingo, and a tropical leaf. If you are artistic at all, you can draw these yourself. There’s also a lot of clip-art that you can find online to match your own decor.

DIY pineapple watercolor art

Next cut your fabric. I cut my fabric to be about 12″ by 12″ so they would fit within an 8″ by 10″ frame. Then fill up your applicator squeeze bottle with some of the water-based resist. I added just a tiny drop of water to thin out the resist.  Trace out your design and fill in any area that you don’t want the watercolor paints to go.

Pineapple wall art

How to make pineapple wall art with resist and watercolor fabric paints

DIY tropical art

Let the resist dry for an hour or two, then you’re ready to paint!

Step 2: Time to Use Your Watercolor Fabric Paints

Next you can use the dye-na-flow watercolor fabric paints to fill in your tropical art. For the three of these, I used chartreuse, cranberry red, and teal. These colors all work so well together and they happen to be my favorite colors. You can mix these paints with water to thin them out, or use them straight to give a rich color.

You can also spray the fabric before-hand with water to spread the paints out even more. I chose not to use too much water with this type of fabric because the paint tends to spread unpredictably.

Flamingo wall art

Jacquard dye-na-flow watercolor fabric paints

Step 3: Set Paint And Rinse Out Resist

You can set the paint using a warm iron (not hot, especially with outdoor fabric. It will melt.)

DIY flamingo wall art

Then rinse out the resist using warm water.Tropical wall art DIY

After the fabric dried again, I went back in with a very small paint brush to add some more detail and shading to each piece.

Step 4: Frame and Hang!

I put my tropical art in white 8″ by 10″ frames and hung them up as part of a gallery.  I think they’re very bright, fun, and summery. What do you think? Is this a project you would try? It is so easy and can be used in so many different ways!

How to make tropical art using watercolor fabric paint

 

DIY tropical watercolor wall art

Tropical watercolor wall art

You can easily make these yourself, but if you want some quick and easy artwork you can head over to The Vanderveen House Etsy shop. I have these tropical watercolor pieces available as individual printable downloads, or as a set of three.

 

Watercolor tropical wall art

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Comments

  1. Ola

    August 5, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    How lovely is this !? Great job once again Jessica!

    Reply
    • Jessica Vanderveen

      August 7, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      Thanks Ola!

      Reply
  2. Habiba

    August 7, 2017 at 2:04 am

    Hey Jessica, I love this watercolor art! I bought some color a while back and I really need to get started on the projects in my head…if it weren’t so many of them lol

    Reply
    • Jessica Vanderveen

      August 7, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      Thanks Habiba! Isn’t that the way it always is, too many projects and not enough time!

      Reply
  3. Jane @SustainMyCraftHabit

    August 11, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    These are gorgeous Jessica! And I didn’t know about that watercolor fabric paint. Will be checking that out!

    Reply
    • Jessica Vanderveen

      August 12, 2017 at 7:06 am

      Thanks Jane, I’ve had lots of fun with these paints!

      Reply

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