Feb 10 1
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I got so frustrated with the postcard from yesterday that I attempted a whole set of fast ones today, and was only halted by hardware issues.

This one uses two layers of organza over a hand dyed background. The bottom layer is a negative, the top a positive. This made me mad, so I did the next thing….

Feb 10 2

This uses more of the masher batiked hand dye, with the mashers themselves printed on organza over it. This time I gave them a white background so they could be seen, but now they look washed out and oddly pointless.

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Finally I returned to the palette and masher I liked best, and was ready to add one more layer of something here – either a print of the masher on organza over the batik, or a copy of the batik printed on organza over the picture of the masher. BUT The connection to the printer is Kaput.

It is entirely self inflicted, because I was trying to make the scanner part scan again, and instead set off a giant and destructive cascade of unhappy computer behavior. So we will replace the hard disk before it crashes, as Little A has requested (little pitchers… she heard her dad talking to Aunt Carol about how computers just need to be replaced every 5 years or so, and after ascertaining that this machine was indeed older than 5 has been agitating hard for a new machine before this one breaks).

Anyhow – this is the one I like best, and it isn’t done enough to post with a name, so you get two inferior ones instead.