more experiments

This is liquid dye on paper. I hung this to dry yesterday and today an artist whose work I love and whose opinion I respect came in and told me she thought this was wonderful. Wonderful? It looks like a tv screen gone bad. She thought I should do a series. Uh - ok. I'll consider it. But not today. In the meantime, I did a number of other experiments this afternoon -- only one of them on fabric. I decided to try again with thickened dye, with which I have had little success in the past. Liquid dye does not work at all on a gelatin plate, other than to color it purple (or whatever color you have painted onto the plate.) Thickened dye on gelatin isn't bad. My first print was on a paper towel.Because I didn't want to use my good mulberry paper on an unknown process, I grabbed the roll of doctor's examination table paper that one of my studio mates had rescued when the guy in the - ahem - "video" business across the hall was evicted last year. It took the print quite well. This paper has good possibilities - it is like strong tissue paper. This print was also left from yesterday: liquid dye on paper and then overprinted on the blue thickened dye. Looked terrible so I squirted some Clorox gel onto it and this is the result. Hmmm... Let's see...what else did I do today? Oh - glue on a screen and thickened dye on paper. Then, toward the end of the day I switched gears and made a deconstructed screen. Here it is. I left the printed fabric in the studio to dry. It is not as interesting as the screen would have you think, but it's hard to tell at this point. I won't be in tomorrow so I'll find out on Thursday what it needs for the next layer. By this time, it was after 5:00 so I headed home. When I parked my car in the driveway, there was a parade in the street. You can't see them all but I counted NINETEEN wild turkeys marching up the street. EEEK!