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Doing this for a friends birthday, Hoping he likes them! :0)
All I did was got a spray bottle, Filled it half full of bleach and half full of water.
Then laid out my stencil (In my case I mostly used twigs, leaves, onions, etc for my "Stencils"
After the bleach set in to a color I liked I rinsed them in water to stop the bleaching process. Then washed them by themselves and dried.
Take a look if ya will :0D
The color variation can be a result of what the original color of the t/shirt was.
ie bleaching a primary color (like blue) would go in the direction of lighter blue before white.
But if the original color is something made up of other colors like green (blue and yellow makes green) then it may change to one of those colors before white.
And for question two, they do just fine in the wash. Like any other thing you would wash.
Just make sure the FIRST time you wash it you wash it by itself. With little laundry detergent. Just to get all the extra colors and bleach out. After the first wash it's good to go like any other thing is. And you can wash it with other clothes too.
Also, washing it had no effect on the design at all, it looke just as it did after washing as it did before.
Hoping it won't be raining tomorrow so I can make another one and film the process from start to finish. :0)
The first one I laid down the stencils and started spraying with the paint, and actually ran out, so then went to bleach, then ran out of bleach so had to run inside and get more (Which gave the bleach already on there time to set)
So I sprayed a bit more, and ended up with that rad coloring on the first shirt haha.
I will try and add a video showing the process tomorrow. :0)
I've learned that T-shirts are the easiest route to go when making things for guys. :0)