Serious Play

I’m not exactly sure what serious play means. I understand it as a more intentional and focus way of working.  With this in mind, I took the suggestion of first marking my marks on some sort of transparency and then layering them over the paintings before making them on the page.  I remembered I had a drawing on a large piece of acetate from print-making class.  I brought it into the studio and played around with it, layering it over some the large paintings.  I really enjoyed seeing how the color influenced how the black marks were read.  Somehow the process reminded of printmaking.  I photographed portions of the paintings and printed a few of them.  I wondered how well the laser printing paper would hold wet printing ink.   Unfortunately, I’m not sure if I will get to experiment with this anytime soon, as I am striving to be mindful of the materials I work with.  Not sure if print-making is completely off the list for now.