I am continuing to experiment with screen printing. Now that I have the process down I am free to make more directed experiments with colors and overlays.  I have found that 2 and 3 color variations work best.  4 and 5 colors seems to be too much for my current figures.  Here are some of my more successful two-color variations:

Three colors:

The green went down first, then the brown finally the translucent red.  Because the purple is so dark there is only an overlay effect from the red. …