OCTOPUSES

 This was a great learning curve, doing creatures that are at the same time so long but also so delicate. The detail on each of the suckers is incredible and when they print it looks like little flowers. The most interesting thing is that it seems that close to the "neck"of the creature, there is a blotch of ink that is darker and more purple than the ink I use, leading me to believe that it was a little of the octopus'own ink.

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.

February 2013, THE BIG ONES !!

Its a new year and with that I made a really cool new contact with a fresh fish deli in the city, Julie's dad has his own boat and he supplies all her super-fresh fish. The great thing about this is I now had access to fish that are not caught from the beach or the rocks but deeper waters and she could also ask them to preserve the integral beauty of the fish, getting to me undamaged and intact. 

Julie chose one of my printed kabeljou and for that I bartered a large yellowtail and a longfin tuna. The tuna is the biggest i've printed at over a metre!