I had a lovely day today. These two photos are screen printing using paper shred as a resist. I started this morning with a couple of monoprints on perspex using my rubber combs. I have had these combs for years, I used to use them to make wood look like timber! using acrylic paint. The monoprints were similar to the gelatin prints I did in January and February in result. I have been putting off the whole screen printing thing for ages, mainly because I have never done it before or even seen it done in real life. It was so much fun! I had a ball and have lots of ideas for new print stencils. It takes me a while to set up and I have to be really organised to do it in the apartment, but great fun and well worth the effort. I used procion mx dyes mixed into extra thick sodium alginate.
Yesterday we took dad down to Bangalow for lunch. Never got there! Too much traffic but made it into Byron Bay, also too much traffic but at least moving! Then home via Murwillumbah, and the Numinbah Valley. We stopped at a garden centre near Chillingham for afternoon tea and found some more nice flowers. But still haven’t found a theme for my Sandra Meech class!