I want, above all, to have a kind of chaos to my pieces, the abstraction of something that hasn’t been created by human hands. This, of course, is impossible.
Layer two, I rolled out some block printing ink and used some old linoblocks I cut to print on the background. Block printing works better on paper than on cloth, so the prints weren’t very clear. This is fine for my purposes. One disadvantage with water based block printing ink is that it doesn’t dry as well as acrylic. When acrylic is dry, it’s dry. In the past, I’ve found that trying to do washes, paint, or even a layer of acrylic gel over a block print has made the block printing ink smear and bleed. I’m going to wait a week before the next stage, in hopes that this doesn’t happen. If it does, well, I’ll work with it.
