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.
Note the date lies in the bottom corner and it is for this dating purpose that I have cut a new linoprint for this year. Just for fun, I've included a couple of icons of 2010 (I know, it's barely begun) that mean something at least to us UK residents. The sharp-eyed will see the door to number 10 Downing Street next to the number 1 and the Eyjafjallajökull volcano inside the zeros. Water-based ink on 96gsm cartridge.
