First stop on Thursday was the college shop - to buy a big pad of decent paper to use instead of newsprint behind a new set of sheets of paper. Here is the process in action - or rather, papers laid to dry. The colours used on any particular day usually depend on what's tempting among the leftovers from other students' projects -

At the end of the day the "overflow"sheets were starting to look interesting. Next week, my plan is to start with new colours and new sheets, but to add to some of the ones already printed - so that by the time the pad (30 sheets) is used up, the colours will run through the entire set.
15 sheets of coloured paper are printed - perhaps for an A4 book? -

Most are printed on both sides, but some of the lines go in the "wrong" direction -
Yet more silk paper -

and even some overprinting on rather gaudy fabric from what seems like long ago -

Quite an improvement, don't you think?

The "overflow prints" on the newsprint had been sitting there, waiting to be noticed, for weeks. Sometimes there comes a wake-up moment... and things fall into place. I'm both excited and calm about developing this further (perhaps even on fabric). The accidental nature of this way of working appeals - but already I find myself trying to manipulate it, rather than just letting it happen. I'll be tempted to add more and more layers -- and thereby lose the white space, which is important too.

This week's little heap of fabric -