Shiva's Fire: Texture

After finding a pattern that I liked I needed to find a way to preserve the pattern. What I decided to go with was using a dimensional fabric paint normally used on T-shirt crafty projects and such. The kind of paint that puffs up when it's exposed to high heat. (I didn't use this exact paint. I used tulip brand, white, velveteen.... which is basically the same as "puff" paint.)
Here is a test I did and then gessoed to see if it would retain dimensionality of the pattern.
If you look hard you can see the pattern in their somewhere. Happy with the results I began the 2 week long task of covering 16 square feet of pattern with this paint. (I really wish I would of taken some pictures of that.)