Tuesday 10 September 2013

Angelfish or Atlantic Pomfret


It's winter and the weather has been too miserable to go fishing so I tried a frozen fish from our local food market. It worked really well and was delicious too. I had ordered a whole lot of really lovely hand-made Japanese papers and found that the kiruku koro, usu kuchi light and gozen really work well. They are all unsized and a natural colour. The shoji screen paper (70% kozo, 30% wood pulp) is very strong and flexible when wet, probably good for very large fish. This angelfish was just over 30 cm. The Latin name is Brama brama.




With the multiple prints I have started to play around with two prints ontop of eachother with the bottom print showing through faintly, giving the impression of fish further away.