Appliqué cover up

I took a little break from "The Raven" theme since I knew how I wanted to do Athena was gonna be a bit of a doozy.

I wanted to put the two wrist tattoos I have on the shirt somehow. One is 'know thyself' in Greek and the other is a Leo symbol. Well, painting them was a hot fucking mess. I tried to clean up the crap paint job I did and it just made it worse.
I know it's a practice t shirt where it's OK to fuck up, but I was not even close to OK with what I did. How to fix this? I figured on two quick and dirty appliqué techniques.

The red skull fabric was where I attempted the Leo symbol. So to fix it I sewed the fabric on the backside on if the sleeve and then cut away on the inside if the stitching so the red fabric would be exposed.

On the part where I did the squares was where I attempted the Greek part. On that one I just cut out little squares, of skull fabric of course, and overlapped them over where I wanted to cover. You can either roll under a hem on each square or leave them raw like I did.  You can see some of the paint where I boo boo'ed in blue.

So if you have a spot on your shirt that won't come out, try these two easy techniques!

Beads in a bottle?

I know what you're saying. "Another effing skull?" Yeah, I like skulls so there will probably be a few on here.

Next I tried this stuff called Beads in a Bottle by Tulip. I went crazy one day cause they were on clearance at Michael's. What it is is paint that rounds by itself to make it look like a bead instead of pointy Madonna boobs. Well it doesn't quite look like a bead, it looks like little dobs of paint. And it takes practice. So here's how it came out...

I used the pewter color, but as you can tell all of the "beads" are not the same size. And some of them ran together and some came out wonky. If you do try this stuff all I can say is practice with it. A lot.

I swear it's just an iron-on officer

First thing I did to the t-shirt was an iron-on transfer.  I like skulls for I figured I'd start there. I scanned in a skull that was printed on a mini reuseable tote I got from Hot Topic.  I sized it up on PhotoShop, reversed the image, and printed it out on iron-on printer transfer sheets for an ink jet printer by Transfermations.  Basically it came out looking like this...

Apparently I heated it with iron too long making the "white" areas yellowish.  Blah...and honestly I don't like the plastic-y look of it. Also it doesn't do well with stretchy material...

I don't know how it handles being washed yet, but so far it cracks when stretched.  From afar it looks OK, but up close I think it looks like shit.  Well that's why it's a practice t-shirt.
They do make transfer papers for stretchy material, so perhaps I'll try that eventually cause crack is whack....
All in all the iron-on transfer paper really easy process. The hardest thing is figuring out what to print!

In an unrelated note, South Park is doing an Ancient Aliens episode tonight where all the Pilgrims were aliens.  The only thing missing it the guy with the crazy hair. Oh damn and now they miraculously mixed Thor in there!