Post #677088 by Gwen on Tue, May 7, 2013 7:32 PM

On 2013-05-07 19:15, MadDogMike wrote:
Looks great Gwen. Are you familiar with http://www.spoonflower.com ? If your computer graphics skills are as good as your painting skills you can design your own fabric for lampshades (or whatever). No minimum and prices start at about $20/yd. That could be expensive if you were making a California King bedspread, but not so bad for a lampshade. Sophista-Tiki has over 100 great Tiki designs there you could buy also. I suspect she paints some of her designs as watercolors then scans and manipulates them but I don't know that for sure. At any rate, it's a great resource for an artist.

Thanks for the wonderful tip, Mad Dog Mike! What a great business concept that is. My computer graphic skills are non-existent, but I just signed up for a class to help remedy that, so perhaps in the not so distant future I might be able to make use of spoonflower. I had so much fun making this lamp I am half tempted to make more and see if I can sell them.