The next element for this piece is a sea monster. I don't know much about this monster, except that it's from the 1550s and possibly from France. I like how weird it is, with the funny long protrusions, the shark-like teeth, and the human-like eyes that seem to be going in the wrong direction for the rest of the fish. It was a bit of a chore to carve, because it's birch plywood and the image is about 2 feet long. Also my hands got very blue from the pigment left in the board from the last printing session.
If you squint you can see a couple of vertical areas of darker brown wood where I've carved. That darker colored wood was really hard, like knots are hard, and it dulled my tools almost instantly whenever I hit it. Annoying. But I kept on going, and then it was carved.
Today I printed again. The photo below is the result of 5 or 6 applications of color. I'll need to sleep on it before I decide if I need to add more color still or move on to the next step.
6 comments:
It looked like a kind of cute, king/face with a long nose on the block, but printed it looks more like a kind of angler fish/sea devil....He's adorable. I want a plush toy. Although he (she?) is more menacing now than it appeared on the block. I like very much your treatment of the sea and waves, the bokashi is very effective but might be worth going darker down below to emphasize the dark, unknown, terrible deep?
Ooh, plush toys!! Great idea. Yes, your thought about more bokashi at the bottom is what I wanted to sleep on. I'm awake now and I think I'll go ahead with that.
Andrew was much more circumspect in his remarks. I thought: Nemo, "Happy feeling gone."
You made me laugh, Richard. Also made me go watch that clip again. I see it, yes. Happy feeling gone.
Andrew is very diplomatic.
I just found your blog via pinterest. This is a wonderful print!
Thanks, EHP!
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