How to Paint a Spooky Spiderweb Shirt for Halloween
It’s almost Halloween, so it’s time for me to show you how to hand paint spiders and a spiderweb on a shirt for a classy Halloween costume!
Since I’m not afraid of spiders, I’m going to paint black widow spiders on my shirt. But feel free to choose a less threatening spider for your Halloween spiderweb painting.
Tools and materials:
- Plain white shirt
- White, black and red fabric paint
- Craft brushes
1. Sketch your spider design
Start by simply drawing a light sketch of your spider design on a plain white shirt.
2. Paint in your design
Use a craft brush and black fabric paint to fill in your spider design.
Add red paint to make some of the spider details.
Then paint in the spider legs.
Make one spider on each side of the shirt front.
3. Paint a background
Use a thicker craft brush with black paint to create a background for your spiderweb. Make the background darker and denser at the collar of your shirt, and then lighter and more spread out as you go down toward the spiders.
Extend the background below the spiders.
4. Add a butterfly
I used white and black paint to add a butterfly just below the collar on the front of the shirt.
5. Paint the spiderweb
Use liquid black fabric paint from a tube to paint a spiderweb over the black background. You can see how the spiderweb is more prominent as you look from top to bottom, where you made the background go from darker to lighter.
Make your spiderweb by first drawing vertical lines from the collar to below the spiders, and then connecting those lines with small curved horizontal lines.
Spiderweb shirt
What do you think about the final effect? Maybe the butterfly takes away some of the spookiness of the black widow spiders!
I think this is a great start to a Halloween costume, and perhaps it’s even all I need.
Let me know if you liked this spider short Halloween costume tutorial, or tried it yourself, by leaving me a comment.
Happy Halloween!
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I love it! You are so talented!
WOW! Love it! Thanx for sharing!