Dream Factory: The Story Behind the Painting
Dream Factory is the quiet one. Sour Diesel shouts at you from across the room. Dream Factory waits for you to come over and look. I painted her in January 2024, and the line I wrote on her page says most of it: she sounded dreamy. Here is the rest of the story, and the pieces she lives on now.
Why I painted her
I will tell you what I had to work with. Dream Factory is an autoflower hybrid, and her lineage has never been published. Nobody can tell me who her parents are, so I am not going to guess. What I had was the name and the flower. The name did half the work. Say "Dream Factory" out loud and you already know what color she should be. The flower did the other half. Her buds are colorful, and they sit under a coat of frost so thick the colors look like they are behind a layer of glass. I wanted to paint that softness without losing the detail, because the detail is what I do. Every hair, every leaf, every little bit of frost.
Dream Factory, the original. 24 x 30 acrylic on canvas, lavender background.
The lavender background
She sits on lavender. Most of my Canna Queens are on dark backgrounds, and dark makes a flower pop. Lavender does the opposite. It calms the whole canvas down and lets the frost blend into the air around her. The green leaves still read as green, the colors in the buds pick up the background, and the whole thing looks like it is lit by a window in the morning. That is the dreamy part. She is still the whole flower, filling the canvas top to bottom, but she is not yelling about it.
How every Canna Queen gets painted
Every painting I do is the mature female flower of a named strain, 24 x 30 acrylic on canvas. The Dream Factory original is UV sealed, signed and stamped, and she is still available. Shipping is included with the price. There is only one of her. Once she is gone, the prints are how she stays around.
The poster
The Dream Factory poster is the painting printed on thick matte paper, 10.3 mil, sourced from Japan. It comes as an 18x24 with no frame or in a black, red oak or white frame, and as an 8x10 for a shelf or a desk. Every framed print in our house is in a black frame, and black and lavender is a good pair: the dark frame gives her an edge she does not have on her own. If your room is already light and soft, the white frame keeps it that way. Red oak warms her up. She is also one of the three strains on the PURPS poster, the 36x24 with Purple Haze and Berry Diesel, if you want her in company.
The 8x10 is the same print at desk size. It ships with no frame, and a standard 8x10 frame from any store fits it.
Dream Factory, 8x10 print. Frame not included.
The hoodie
The Dream Factory hoodie puts the whole painting on the back. It comes in black, purple or white. The purple one is the one I would pick, because a lavender painting on a purple hoodie looks like somebody planned it. The face is 100% cotton, it runs true to size, and if you like it baggy go one size up. Sizes run S to 3XL and the size chart is on the page. I wear a hoodie when it finally gets cold here in Florida, which is not often, so mine stays looking new.
Dream Factory hoodie, purple. The painting rides on the back.
The small one
The collectible Dream Factory poster is 12x18 with the strain name printed under the painting and our mark. It is the one to start with if you are building a wall of strains a few at a time. Buy any three collectibles and the discount shows up at checkout on its own.
Collectible Dream Factory poster, 12x18.
Everything Dream Factory
All of her pieces live on the Dream Factory page: the original, the poster, the hoodie and the rest. If she is not your strain, the shop by strain page has all of the Canna Queens with a short note on each. Everything except the original is made when you order it. Production takes 3 to 7 days and US delivery is another 3 to 7 business days, so give it about two weeks. If you need it by a date, email us at cannaqueensproject@gmail.com and we will tell you straight.
💚 ☁️ 🌱Kristy