These fish prints were challenging for me. Initially, I liked the way the images came off the press. Using the fish cut from paper as masks on the plate left stark white places, or in some cases I textured up the fish with ink and set it on the plate to reprint and it produced a nice mottled image. But then I got these home and they looked amateurish next to the red and black pieces I’d done toward the end of the day on Sunday.
I let the fishies sit for the day, then pulled them out tonight, and started embellishing with watercolor, colored pencil and pastels. Now I really like them! I wish I’d photographed them “naked.” I’ll have to remember to do that next time, so that there is the “before” to go with the “after.”
More detail shots are posted at the end of this entry. Click on the images for even more detail.
Cool!! I was thinking about your art work while walking through the museums and art galleries in NY last week. There was lots of mixed media art.
Art M