To recap from the previous post: the bedroom curtains were a dramatic color but a casual length, and had a subtle pattern that was getting lost in the color.
What I did was very simple: I painted on some little white dots with acrylic paint, to bring out parts of the pattern a little better:
I did actually iron this curtain, before I hemmed it.... Anyway, notice that the dots in one column of circles are brighter than the rest. Those are the ones I painted with a cut-off cotton swab stick; just one line of dots on each curtain panel, off-center to the outside. It took about 15 minutes, and accomplished the following:
1. The brighter dots give the eye something to latch onto, an entry into perceiving the pattern.
2. Then the eye, depending on the light and distance, can start to follow the rest of the original pattern, or else the dots will stand alone as a pattern. (Try moving closer to and away from your display to see this.)
3. With the pattern more visible, the green becomes the background, and becomes visually subordinate to the pattern. Or maybe attentionally is a better word than visually.
4. Offsetting the column of handpainted dots to one side gives the curtains a much more casual feel, more congruent with their length.
With this one simple change, I like these curtains much better. In my experience, acrylic paint, once it is dry, will more or less survive machine washing. If not, repainting would be a quick job.
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