Acrylic Painting for Reduction Screenprint

"Chicago Style Hotdog" acrylic painting for reduction screen print. Liquitex Basics and Golden Open on Arches Oil paper.

I will be working on turning this painting into a screenprint. I don't usually use acrylics for anything but crafts, mixing with textile medium, or mixing with silkscreen medium for printmaking. Generally, I'm a lot more comfortable drawing than painting, and when I do paint I like watercolors. Acrylic dries really fast for me. This go-round, I used open medium, and blending wasn't an issue since I did large blocks of color, in anticipation of the screenprinting.

For Christmas, Jon made me a much larger screenprinting board with hinge clamps and bought me a new screen and squeegee. This one will probably take me a while to finish, because I usually work smaller with fewer colors. I'm excited to get started!