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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).}

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PRINTMAKING: Fish Two

animation, Art, experimental, Film, printmaking January 28, 2017

This is the second post in my series of fish prints created using the woodblock printmaking method…for my experimental animated film titled Toxic Fish. Dramatically, after ocean fish are poisoned their bodies swell up, die and disintegrate. The static shape of the fish from the woodblock design starts firm before being flooded by toxins. It then falls apart to illustrate this. The method I employed was to gradually over-ink the block. This resulted in details being dampened into puddles…definition and sharpness were blurred and reduced into a dramatic sequence of atrophy.

A woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-© 1990 Michael Hill. — Woodblock print for my animated film *Toxic Fish*.
©1990 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics.

Below is a photo of me carving one of the blocks using a Japanese chisel. I must add that this is not the recommended way to of doing it! It has been posed for a photograph and shows a compromised pose of the process for promotional purposes. The woodblock carving process is done on a fixed bench with one carving away from, not towards, one’s body.

Hand carving one of the woodblocks for the animated film Toxic Fish-Photograph © 1990 Demetra Christopher. — Hand carving one of the several woodblocks for the animated film *Toxic Fish*.
Photograph ©1990 Demetra Christopher.

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PRINTMAKING: Fish One

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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.

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.

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.