Planning for my silk painting attempt using watercolours

I'm waiting on some silk gutta and a frame to be delivered so I thought I'd try my honeycomb and bee out in watercolours to see how that would look. I tried to use similar techniques that I will be using in the silk painting experiments i.e salt to leech colour and using the paint on wet paper. I also used the lino cut of the bee, painted with watercolour to give a brief outline that I could work with.

I'm really pleased with the end result and I'm looking forward to trying this in silk painting.