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 over the years, beginning with a series of fish. Using the woodblock printmaking method with variations in inking to make monoprints, the prints made could be used in animation. Six species of fish were featured, the first of which, featured here, is the Japanese Tai or sea bream. I was very attracted to the idea of working in both  animation or printmaking at the time but found it difficult to sustain both and then to choose between the two. I found the answer 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 somewhere in-between the other two.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork.

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Tai/sea bream woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing 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.

Posts of my graphic based material include:

BOOKBINDING THE GRAFIK GUITAR

CARTOON

POSTCARD

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Creator and former Director of the Master of Animation course at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation and a PhD 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 donated 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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