Preparation
Freshly bought
Cotton pillow are often provided with a finish. To ensure that the Fabric paint will hold well on the pillowcases later, wash them thoroughly with cold water before painting.
Download the
motif template and print it out. Place the template in the cushion cover and transfer the individual motifs. Use the Strich-Ex pen to draw the contours of the tropical leaves and the cactus on the white cushions. This pen has the advantage that the purple Ink disappears after some time without leaving any residue.
For painting we recommend to put a foil into the cushion cover as
protection before. This prevents the paint from seeping through to the back of the cushion cover.
Painting
The marked leaves and cactus are painted with dark green paint. To
paint "light" on the motifs, the second step
is to paint with light green paint. If the dark green colour is still moist, only will result in delicate, softly merging brightenings. On the dry dark colour the light colour will rather cover
To create a design you can also use real leaves or palm fronds as stamps. In the idea, a palm frond was painted with paint for a cushion and "stamped" on the cover.
Small corrections to the green and the contours of the leaf stalks are best done with a Fabric painting pen in black or green.
