Elayne found this lotus fun to paint with yellow, turquoise, pink and black fabric paints. The center is yellow like the sun, black is the accent color in all the petals, and white fabric was left next to the turquoise and other areas for more interest.

This mandala is more Native American. Elayne wanted aqua, light green, orange and brown as the key colors with yellow for the stars, inner circle spikes and as an accent. She tried to keep the balance between the colors.

The elephant was a challenge for Elayne with all the different size areas, but it ended up being dramatic with turquoise, red, green and yellow. She made a couple of painting mistakes so she sewed glass beads over them.

Elayne used iron on sheets in various places of the t-shirt then began painting in cobalt blue, red, turquoise and metallic grey. She just let the Spirit move her to decide how to proceed with the design.

This is the finished geometric t-shirt. Elayne added lavender in several areas, outlined the zig zag and downward arrows in orange, and painted various colors in the geometrics trying to maintain a balance throughout.

This is not a good work of art, but Elayne is showing it as an example of painting colors in the open areas of a stencil against fabric. Unfortunately, Elayne was not able to see how the colors looked because she could not lift up the stencil until finished. The stems turned out quite sloppy along with other parts of the painting. The only redeeming factor were the colors. Lesson - don't use a stencil to paint fabric.