Yay! I say almost because I will add more coffee stains. This photo shows what the process is like. Even if the coffee isn’t so streaky as I’d like, it’s ok…this has to be the best smelling painting ever!
Near final here, just waiting to add more streaks once it’s completely dry. When it’s wet the coffee just spreads instead of streaks and I need more visual texture.
EDIT: I forgot some details.
This was printed by Spoonflower.com for me. Right now, they print your designs for you on 100% cotton Kona fabric which is a quilter’s cotton (holds up for many washes and all that). Before I sent the file, I increased the color saturation by 30%. That was a guesstimate based on images posted on Spoonflower’s Flickr group. Here’s my original file, except I removed the brown streaks and left the blue ink splotches.
I have to say, their customer service is excellent. I sent in my JPEG which was huge (42″x42″). I then asked them when they were planning to offer other fabrics besides Kona cotton and will they have cotton canvas? Lo and behold, one of the co-owners, Steve, told me that if I were willing to be a guinea pig, they had some canvas they could use and I could have it if I wanted. Well…ya! They are so nice and worth checking out if you ever wanted to get into fabric design.
I would have liked to write about it sooner but hubby had to help me and he was able to today. He says it looks good and that’s important.
