This is the fifth in a series of six posts documenting the production of the experimental prints that I created 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. Its static shape on the woodblock contrasts with the flooding of coloured toxins from commercial pollution which are overlaid around it which eventually poison the fish. Variations in the volume of ink applied to the block plus the choice of hue produced a range of similar but different outcomes that when edited in sequence 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 in Sydney (see certificate and photo on previous post: PRINTMAKING: Fish Four).
All photos postcards, postcard art and printmaking by Dr. Michael Hill aka Doctor Comics.