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Published: 2006-07-02 00:43:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 632; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 41
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24x36 inches approx.Pen and ink, with gouache highlights, on hand made paper. I created the paper with timothy hay, abaca, and cotton. It is colored with tea and coffee and has inclusions on tea leaves. The nets are hand spun kozo paper which has been knitted.
This one took a really long time between the drawing and the nets...so I'm glad to finally have this one finished! Any feedback/questions are appreciated, as always thanks for looking.
Also, I will post a detail!!! Sorry in advance for the quality of the photo, I am getting a slide taken which promises higher quality. FULL VIEW PLEASE!!!
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Comments: 28
This is sooo cool!
I really love it ^^ I recently bought some handmade paper (I havent tried making any...YET) and I love it but was looking for ideas of what to do with it, this is exactly the type of think I imagned, it is soo good and I completely agree with RAMENBASEDLIFEFORM ^^
may I ask if you used a reference and if so was it your own photo or...
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Awesome, the hand made paper makes it seem like you created a tiny world and then populated it with fish.
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Thankies! 
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You're welcome, & thanks.
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Beautiful! I love the texture. The carp are especially sweet.
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The spiraling of the nets is really gorgeous. Also, those weedly things in faint brown. Though I would wonder if the whole doesn't feel too enclosed. the fish, nets... they all form a very frame-ly shape.
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Yeah, I think it is little enclosed. The nets ended up a lot more solid than I had planned...but this work is really different than a lot of my other work.
Usually I plan the stuffing out of an idea before I even get started (prep drawings, sketches, mock ups..) but this time I just got the idea and started slinging pulp around.
I think it could have been even more succesful, but now that I've done that piece, some of my newer pieces like Nocturne (wip), the brook, etc are being done the same way and coming out more to my satisfaction.
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Yay! And yay for storms. ; ) Sorry, had to mention. There's a fantastic thundering monstrosity banging itself against my house.
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Very cool! I love the texture of the paper. (I'm a texture junky!) : ) And the fish are very elegantly done.
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Wow, I love the integration of so many different elements, and the highlights on the fish are dazzling.
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Thanks! the coffee and tea made the paper surprisingly dark, and the pen didn't show up that well, so I borrowed the idea from Larkin.
Thanks again for your comment and fav!
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Wonderful idea to include the idea of nets in this way, and the little fish are so realistic. You almost expect them to start wriggling and swimming.
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Thanks for the comment and fav by the way!
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You're very welcome. I also think the angle must have been difficult, as you seem to look from the top "into" the paper watching the fish swim "beneath" you.
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Yeah the angles of the fish were difficult to draw (thanks for noticing!)...I orginally thought of doing a top view down, but decided it would be more difficult and better practice this way.
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Gorgeous! I love how the paper so easily resembles water - it goes so well. I also love the way you highlight the fish with white. The bits of netting are an interesting texture too. Quite unusual and very lovely.
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Thankies. The nets took FOREVER to make...between spinning the paper and knitting them. So I'm glad you like them! :fish:
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You're welcome 
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I have allways felt sorry for the weird deformed goldfish. they take a beautiful Koi and then inbreed it to the point where it has weird swollen eyes or a mishapen head and call it pretty.
but enough about that.
once again really awsome piece. your artistic paperwork allways adds weight and power to the piece you draw in it.
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Thanks!
Yeah, I know how you feel...it's so strange how humans take an animal and manipulate it (by breeding). Just think, all goldfish come from the common carp. All domestic dogs whether it's a St. Bernard or a toy poodle all orginate from a single typ of wild dog. Strange indeed!
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or the whole lyger or tigone thing or zebra/donky hybrids. HUmanity has a weird way of spiking the punch of natural selection don't we.
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yet there are people who deny evolution! If we have evidence of one type of animal changing dramatically due to selective breeding (even if it is human arranged), doesn't that prove it???
It's interesting that you bring up mixing animals that don't normally breed together..i read recently its one of the ways scientists are trying to save some endangered species. It sounds like Jurassic Park to me!!!
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Wow! It doesn't get any more hand-crafted than that -- an original artwork right down to the paper.
I'm so impressed that you make your own paper, which is an artform itself. It gives the piece much more personality than mass-produced papers.
The overall concept is very cool, and the multiple textures (especially the nets) create a wondrful mixed media effect.
Other than that, I like it.
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Thanks for the kind words (and the first comment!!!) I do my best, and I definitely spent a lot of time on this one...I've been working on it off and on since January.
It's also the largest stipple drawing I've completed to date.
Thanks again, and thank you also for the fav!!!
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