Day 2/100

 Today I concentrated on one piece. Printed a texture on another old surface, but this is the one that received the most attention.

This was where it started. The first layer, which is thankfully obscured, was a truly awful watercolor of an iris. It was a vertical format. Over it I printed a layer with burnt sienna, then another with magenta, and then a third (one of the plates in yesterday's post) with burnt sienna and payne's gray. The colors from the original still show through, but abstracted.

This is where I left off today, after pulling out some of the shapes. I worked with acrylics and watercolor crayons, and it still has a ways to go. Tomorrow I might push this one a little further along or get another piece started. I tend to work best when I have a lot going on at once.

One of the things I am liking in working this way is that nothing is wasted. Not only am I rescuing old paintings from the trash, but at the end of the day all the leftover acrylic paint gets smeared onto a plate so it can be printed. Yay!