PRINTMAKING: Fish Three

animation, Art, experimental, Film, printmaking May 5, 2017

This is the third post based on the fish prints I made using woodblock printmaking techniques…for the experimental animated film Toxic Fish. The fish in this sequence is the Kohada or Gizzard Shad.  Its static shape on the woodblock contrasts with the flooding of coloured toxins around it.

Woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics. Fish printed in black ink with orange and yellow surrounds including smudging. This print is also stamped and framed as static artwork…and later reworked and published as an art postcard-©1999 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print in grey with overlaid red and pink hand-colouring…and some smudging with green surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish ©1990 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print in grey with overlaid purple smudging…and hand-colouring and yellow surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish ©1990 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print in basic black with overlaid grey hand-colouring…and smudging effects for the animated film Toxic Fish ©1990 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print with overlaid blue saturated hand-colouring…and surrounding purple and yellow coloured textural patches for the animated film Toxic Fish ©1990 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print with overlaid yellow/brown/grey hand-colouring and green surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish ©1990 – Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print with overlaid pale-blue hand-colouring and orange surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish © 1990 -Dr. Michael Hill. This print is also stamped and framed as static artwork-©1999 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print with overlaid purple hand-colouring…and yellow/pink surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish-© 1990 Michael Hill. This print also stamped and framed as static artwork…and for duplication as an art postcard.
©1999 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Fish woodblock print with overlaid blue, purple and yellow hand-colouring and yellow smudged surrounds…for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.
Making overlay textural effect inking of a sequence of prints on the floor of the studio…for inclusion as frames in the animation. (Photo by Louise Graber).

Other posts of my graphic based material include:

MORE CARTOONS

POSTCARD-Second Series

PRINTMAKING: Fish Two

(All text, photos and artwork-©2017 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 and 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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    juliaraath says on July 20, 2017

    Hello Michael,

    What a lovely surprise seeing you pop up in a random search I was doing on delivering design courses – random indeed! A delight to see your 1990 fish prints and to read that you are now active in the artistic domain. Cheers, and enjoy ! Now I know where you are I can follow you. 🙂 Julia

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      Doctor Comics says on July 20, 2017

      Hullo Julia,
      lovely indeed. Thanks for getting in touch. You have found my website. I have been building it up over the last 5 or 6 years since I retired from UTS and other academic work. And so the art impulse starting coming back, more and more after being put on hold for so long. I have also recently started appearing on Instagram as @doctorcomics and my email addy is doctorcomics@gmail.com so let me know what you are up to these days. Michael

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