Deconstructing the Screen

I did a lot of deconstructed screen printing last summer.

My good friend Robin suggested that a 

Dusty Miller leaf

might make a great resist on one of my screens.

I prepared a screen with one

and then ran out of time to play with it.

So it has been sitting patiently 

waiting for me to come out to play.....

until yesterday!!

Here's the screen before printing:

The first photo on today's blog post is of 
my third pull with the print paste -

came out nicely!

Below is one of the later pulls,

after the leaf image had totally deconstructed.

I love it.

This is my work table after I was finished

The reddish-brown tones that you see are

from previous dye jobs on the cloth covering my work table -

underneath the piece of silk.

That color will not be in my final piece.

I have a plan for this piece, 

so stay tuned!!

peace