Pondering while a black Posca Pen dries.Week 2 of my Screen Printing workshop found me colouring in two of the three images that will become the colour separation screens for my screen printing refresher course. Thinking in layers of colour while producing 3 black images on tracing paper is two things. Meditatively calming and creative all in the same moment. Preparing the screens is just a lovely hands on job, stripping old images off the screen, recoating and then exposing the screen to apply my image. My precious tracing paper images have done their job. The picture above is the three of them superimposed and then photographed. I love the greyscale image the tracing paper image created. Enhanced a bit with some outline drawing. Slightly anticipating the colour activity of next week I digitally superimposed the image onto part of a very old blue painting, long since sold.

I am very happy with the result

But having found the old, blue, acrylic painting I wondered what else I could use it with.

I sensed I might be able to create a moody, atmospheric night scene. One that I would never have the photographic skills to recreate. My early evening dog walks are like this now. Slightly claustrophobic, the only point of light is the light pollution from the city which is hiding just beyond the next couple of bays. Despite knowing this walk very well, early nightfall does bring a sense of forboding and maybe a small frisson of fear. All entirely imagined.

Funny the things I thought about while colouring in shapes with a black Posca Pen.