My prints are reduction silk screen prints. It is a somewhat unusual method..  The effects are very painterly, layered, and richly textured. I use one screen for all the colors. Before printing, I work out a full color composition in acrylic or watercolor. This is used throughout the procedure as a working sketch. I put the sketch into the register guides under the screen where I can see through the mesh and work directly from this sketch for each color.

The first color, blue for example, prints the entire rectangle of print area in one color. The entire edition is printed (all 25 to 30 pieces of paper). While these dry, I clean the first color out of the screen, let it dry, and then paint blockout onto the screen in all the areas which I want to remain blue. The blockout medium is a waxy substance  which fills the mesh of the screen. When it dries, I can print the second color, say red. Since the screen is blocked in certain areas, red cannot be printed. I continue this for all of the remaining colors. Often prints have over twenty-five colors and show thick layering of paint. 

This technique is a means to an end. I think of these works as true originals and do not make prints in order to obtain multiples, but rather to get a certain quality of image. 

These prints are referred to as reduction prints because the open area of the screen is reduced with each successive blocking out. 

It is always interesting to see how a sketch or painting changes during the printing process.  There is a  distillation of the image, and there are always surprises along the way. After nearly thirty years of refining this technique, I now find joy in allowing the process to inform the work.