I like this one. Little samurai face just below the collar of a women’s cut shirt, pink and lavender, with some hand painted touches.

I took a few extra steps and tried a few new methods to achieve this result and I was pleased with the whole deal. I also tried a little bit of a production run (total of six originally pink shirts that were left over from my original breast cancer idea that sorta flopped) before I even had the prototype all the way through. Confidence or foolishness?

It was also pretty well received at the studio show last weekend, and I sold a few, which is also very pleasing…

It points in a whole bunch of new directions, though, as the whole batik thing continues to be really, really interesting.

(they still photograph fer crap though, getting moire patterns and the colors are always off…sigh…)