Can’t help myself! I had to fiddle with this dress which was not bad, but not really good either.
So I overpainted it in blue. I did this double layered, meaning that I was too lazy to open up the side seams and lay it flat. Note to self: single layered will give a better result! The blue is possibly a little more mottled than I wanted, although not too bad.
I could of course have immersion dyed it, but I wanted some colour variations. Subtle ones, so I could print over the top. This was the motif I wanted to use.
What I didn’t count on was that the criss-cross brush strokes would still be very visible.
I don’t think overprinting would work with this background, too busy, even with low contrast prints like in black.
Do I like the blue better than the green? I do, although that is a purely personal preference. Arguably the blue brush strokes had more impact on the green.
But I didn’t really like that particular shade of green and blue is my favourite colour, so there!
I might mock up black prints in Photoshop and see if it would look good against my expectations. But this is probably the end of the road for this dress. I quite like it, but let’s see if it will get worn or not!