Tag: fish prints

PRINTMAKING: Fish Three

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

This is the third post on the fish prints I made with 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.

Fish woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-©1990 Dr. Michael Hill. Fish printed in black ink with orange and yellow surrounds including grey smudging. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork and was also later reworked and published as an art postcard-©1999 Dr. Michael Hill.

Fish woodblock print with overlaid pale-blue hand-colouring and orange surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish-© 1990 Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork and also published as an art postcard-©1999 Dr. Michael Hill.

Fish woodblock print with overlaid purple hand-colouring with yellow and pink surrounds for the animated film Toxic Fish-© 1990 Michael Hill. This print also stamped to be sold for framing as static artwork and also published as an art postcard-©1999 Dr. Michael Hill.

Overlay textural effect inking of a sequence of prints for the animation on the floor of the studio. (Photo by Louise Graber).

Other posts of my graphic based material include:

MORE CARTOONS

POSTCARD-Second Series

PRINTMAKING: Fish Two

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

This is the second post in my series of making fish prints made using the woodblock printmaking method for my experimental animated film titled Toxic Fish. As the ocean fish are poisoned their bodies swell up then disintegrate. The static shape of the fish from the woodblock holds firm at first before being flooded by toxins. The method employed was to gradually over-ink the block so that details were dampened into puddles and definition reduced.

A woodblock print with overlaid hand-colouring for the animated film Toxic Fish-© 1990 Michael Hill.

Here is a photo of me carving one of the blocks using a Japanese chisel. Warning: this is not the recommended way to of doing it! It is much safer done on a fixed bench with one carving away from, not towards, oneself. The photo is condensed pose of the process for promotional purposes.

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

If you liked this post you might like to look at others on my Blog.

PRINTMAKING: Fish One

THE GRAFIK GUITAR

POSTCARD

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.