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I was about to talk about that. Yes, acrylic paints should work well for coloring shirts. There are some recommendations I would like to make about acrylic paint. The most important thing to remember is to use liquid acrylic medium to thin the paint for easier application. Use water sparingly, because water weakens the acrylic's ability to bond to a surface.
Artists used a chalky paint called gesso on the canvas fabric to keep the oil paints from making the canvas rot. Therefore, oil paints should not be used for painting fabrics unless the paint manufacturer says otherwise. This is not a problem with acrylics, and some painters that use acrylics today do not use gesso on canvas fabric. If my memory serves me well, Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis both would make art by thinning down acrylics with water and pouring them onto the canvas. This would probably be fine with t-shirts as well, but it would result in uneven color, even when using the same paint repeatedly over the surface. The technique looks more like watercolor than acrylic.
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