PRINTMAKING: Fish One

animation, Art, experimental, Film, printmaking July 23, 2016

This series of posts will profile a collection of creative prints that I have made, beginning with a series of fish. I used the woodblock printmaking method with variations in inking to make monoprints so that the prints produced could also be used in animation sequences. Six species of fish were featured, the first of which is the Japanese Tai or sea bream. I was very attracted to the idea of working in both animation and printmaking at the time but found it difficult to sustain both in the available time and ultimately had to choose between the two. I found the solution in combining both mediums. Animation’s enormous need for artwork could be more speedily met by using the printmaking medium. I was doubly happy but have since settled on making comics which falls in the space located somewhere in-between and requires a lot less artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print artwork with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film from my experimental animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. This print also stamped for framing and sale as static artwork.

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Shooting my 1990 animation Toxic Fish on the Oxberry animation rostrum camera with artwork produced from woodblock printmaking.

Other posts of my graphic based material include:

BOOKBINDING THE GRAFIK GUITAR

CARTOON

POSTCARD

(All text, photos and artwork-©2016 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation plus a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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