 Kick the first thing I decided I was gonna do decided right away easier to do it on dark fabric than light fabric So I went out to the fabric store and I got some black denim This is a half of a yard of black denim, and I'm just crunching it up into a plastic bin Please make sure you wear plastic gloves that you are in a well ventilated area And that you have an apron on and that you maybe have eye protection on This is not a the part of the project that you should do with kids not by any stretch of the imagination You're working with bleach All right, so these are bleach gel pens which I love and when I'm working with bleach in art on fabric They are my preference. It does make me wheeze. So I was medicated and in a well ventilated area because hello, asthma Anyway, so I put some on squish it around move the fabric around refold it put some more bleach on there Squish it around move it around let it sit For about a half an hour to an hour depending on how much you want it to be bleached then wash it and dry it And then we're back now I've got my so soft Decor so soft fabric paints in a variety of blues pinks purples and White and we are going to paint a galaxy on our fabric. I will list a The selection of paint colors I have in the description below We're going to use the bleach designs and swirls here that you see in the fabric as Our suggestion of where we should put the paints I start with the lightest blue and a stenciling or stippling brush and I scrub the colors in from the lightest to the darkest and I Occasionally dip my brush in water and Blot it off on a rag and then continue scrubbing and that helps me thin out and blend the paints a little bit better You want your finished fabric if you plan on washing it to be a little bit brighter Then you want the finished product to be because when you do wash this fabric paint it will fade a slight bit So keeping that in mind you want to Continue painting this swirly foggy sort of nebula like background to your galaxy I don't want to cover up all of the bleach designs because I'm going to use them and Incorporate them into the finished piece to help me suggest my galaxy background. I'm going to alternate between Colors, I'm not cleaning my brush off really. I have two brushes One is mainly for the lighter colors and one is for the darker colors One's a little bigger than the other so one, you know, I can get more scrubbing space in it This is a really big piece of fabric It's only a half of a yard wide a few inches wide But it's like 45 inches long and I do do the whole piece of fabric Although I've sped it up here for you guys a lot. I Usually use a selection of blues and purples and with a touch of pink to give it a pop I really like that color way But please feel free to use whatever color scheme that you are attracted to if you're into greens Maybe do greens and yellows with maybe a touch of blue. That's a really pretty color way to do this with Have some fun with it. You're probably gonna want to have five or six colors. So here I am continuing down I'm a little farther down the fabric. I'm continuing my scrubbing and blending process I'm not even trying to cover up all of the bleach I'm using it and incorporating it and I am Also, not trying to cover up the black because when you see galaxy paintings, there's a lot of blackness in the background It's the galaxy. There's no sunlight Or at least there doesn't seem to be anyway Alright, so here we go. We're continuing the scrubbing process and I'm layering my colors And you know, I put the light to dark colors on and then if I think it needs more of something I go back and add something else and I keep adding my layers and scrubbing and swirling and blending Until I've got something that I really really am happy with To use as the background for the next step, which is painting the stars in And it's nice to do a big piece of fabric like this because then you can Have it, you know in your stash of stuff Maybe you just use a small piece of it initially to make something with but then you've got the fabric in the future Down the line to do other things with and I never plan on washing this so for me It wasn't an issue. It wasn't going to be a garment or anything. It's going to be a Cover for something which you'll see in a different video. It's a different video I'll link that video in the description below what I do with this fabric And you can kind of see there on the right where I've added I you can see a little sneak peek of adding the Stars into the background which we haven't quite gotten to yet But I I do complete like one section of the fabric in its entirety and then I go to the next piece Because like I said, it was just it's a huge piece of fabric And I take I'm taking out different sizes of brush and blending and adding colors And if I think I've gotten something too dark, then I add more light now here I've gotten some of the white paint and I have different brush, and I'm just splattering it on its watered down And I'm literally just splattering it on the paint Just throwing it out at the at the fabric and then I'm taking some of these Splatters and some more of the paint and some water and I'm blending some of them out a little bit to create a foggy misty Effect to our galaxy background I'm not doing it with all of them because I want to leave some of them They're supposed to be stars and or planets or something But I am adding some of them and I am you know adding some in where I didn't get any splatters If I think it needs it like right there in that accidental circle pattern that I have there going on You also don't have to do it with just White paint. So here I come in with some pink and I'm adding a little bit of pink and I'm with a very small brush And and scrubbing it in just like I did with the white So you can have some fun with it and don't worry about blending all of the marks out because you want to leave some of them They create interest to your finished piece and Some of it's going to blend with the base colors underneath because there's everything is very wet. That's okay We are not worried about that at all You're going to get an interesting effect. So just have fun with it in play and Experiment yeah I've done this too before where I've taken and done it with the white in the pink or the white in the light blue so Whatever you want to do You can also always come back in with some black if you've added too much color and taken away too much of the black You can come in it with the black and scrub some black in there is me adding some more of that pink in And I'm just literally smudgy lines But it's adding a nice effect and really making it look like a nebula or you know galaxy kind of thing I don't know what to describe it. I'm not an astronomer. I'm a painter But I like the way it looks I don't know what got me into this wild crazy galaxy thing But anyway, it's a lot of fun And as you can see from my table the white splattery paint went everywhere because you know Why should I get out my paint box? after I was done I did some more splattering and Added some more to it and there you go. I Hope you have fun with this and don't forget to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later