This is the fifth post documenting the production of the experimental prints that I made with woodblock printmaking techniques…for both gallery exhibition and also as frames in my experimental animated film Toxic Fish (see photos below). The fish in this sequence is the gizzard shad. It has static shape on the woodblock…this contrasts with the flooding of toxins from commercial pollution which are overlaid around it which eventually poison the fish. Variations in the volume of ink and the choice of hue produced a range of similar but different outcomes. When edited in sequence these contributed to the creation of the illusion of movement. The film was screened at CINANIMA, the Animation Festival in Esphino, Portugal…and at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney…and also at the Big Day Out rock festival. also in Sydney. (See certificate and photo on previous post: PRINTMAKING: Fish Four).

_{A woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for my animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. (Print of image for animation: blue ink over black shape with black and blue ink smudged overlay…start of disintegration of fish…for use as single and double frame sequence of the animation at 24 f.p.s.)}

_{A woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for my animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. (Print of image for animation: multicoloured smudged overlay of ink…for use as both single and double frame sequence of the animation at 24 f.p.s.)}

_{(All text, photos and artwork-©2022 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).}