Screen printing

I am working on a small collection of screen printed t- shirts and bags  for my etsy store and maybe a local shop as well. I already have some listed and more are in the works. These are from last weeks efforts. I love the misty blues that come out of the dye wash, looks almost like watercolor to me.

 https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/styx2stars

   

 

I am also doing some hand painted one of a kind pieces (also up on etsy). They are very time consuming but I really enjoy doing them so will continue making them whenever I have the time.

I generally use up-cycled tops for the hand painted tops.

 

trees and a wee birdy

Just playing around today and indulging in some paint splattering and dribbling. fun.

more watercolour

My watercolour explorations continue. This is a detail of a forest study I've been working on. I like how this part of it turned out but am not so happy with the picture as a whole. I painted this on canvas paper, which the watercolours swam on a bit and made more solid colours hard. The tree is drawn with ink and a quill. This is the first time I used a quill and I love it. I really like the accuracy and control of using the quill and it also makes lovely wispy effects as it runs out. Oh and it makes little scratching sounds on the paper which further adds to the basic and old fashioned feel of it. I'm won over.