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….
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.
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.
Lee Thomson 
I really like the first one a lot. It’s very artsy and there’s a lot going on without a lot going on. If that makes any sense. I agree with you about the second one – it’s a bit bland. I can’t wait to see how the third one turns out! I like the colors and the little ‘film strip’ mashers.
Actually, now that I really look at it, there’s something very filmy about it: the masher itself looks like the inside parts of the reel/spool portion of a film developer – you know, that canister thingy when you’re developing b&w film.
I have GOT to play with my copy of Photoshop at some point. It looks so *cool*!
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