Silk screening: step one

I bought this book Printing by Hand by Lena Corwin a few weeks ago at a store in Silver Lake called Reform School. Since then I've been itching to make some prints. The book introduces a good variety of printing techniques- some I was familiar with, and some I was not. I've done some silk screening when I was in school and I've worked for a screen printer, so this technique is not new to me. But I was surprised to learn that there are more ways to print with the screen than to just make the stencil by burning the film onto the emulsion coated screen.

I have a screen that I'd bought years ago in college that I have never used. I decided to use one of the techniques shown in the book to make my first ever print with my very own screen. I bought some screen drawing fluid and started painting directly on the screen. I am letting it dry right now. Later I will coat the screen with screen filler and after that's dry, wash out the part I painted with drawing fluid. Then I'll finally be able to print. It's a lot of drying and waiting for now...