Monoprint: Blue fish by Peter Gander

Monoprint: Blue fish
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Brilliant. Very refreshing to see such a good, simple design and very good use of toning colours.

Thanks very much Elin. ;)

Meant to comment on this one too, because I liked it so much; the colours do indeed harmonize beautifully, and it's a cheery picture; I prefer black and white, generally - but the transparency of the colour here is beautiful. As are those lines at the top.

I agree with Robert about the lines and it is a fascinating image as a whole! This would have been great just painted in one go and would sell like mad in the shops!!!!

Thanks for stopping by, Robert and James, glad you like it. I'll put it up in my August show and see if it'll sell ;)

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31/03/2015
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Back to the lighter side of things with this foamboard print of a fish. The foamboard was cut into its respective areas of separate colour, jigsaw-style and each piece inked then slotted back into 'the bigger picture'. The foam lends a lovely dotted texture. Because it is also soft, impressions are easily made. For instance, the scales were made by pressing the back of my fingernail into the foamboard and the wavy water lines by the sharper edge of my nails. Although strictly speaking, this is a 'monoprint', I did produce some more copies with different colours, but this, the first one, is my favourite, using a restricted, but harmonious, palette of colours.

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