FISHY CARDS INSPIRE ARTWORK!

While the gallery is closed, I am making some new stock.  As fish are one of my favourite subjects, I have made some cards using handpainted papers.  Some of the fish needed more embellishment than others.  With most of them I let the patterns on the paper speak for itself and only had to add an eye...

These cards inspired me to finish off an artwork that I was never happy with!  It is on a wooden panel - 50 cms square.

Left is the unfinished artwork and right is an experimental mixed media work on paper which I cut up to form the fish shapes which were collaged on...