D&Print

My design idea was a koi fish and an Asian symbol for spirit. I chose the koi fish because I originally have in mind this wooden statue of a goldfish that my grandparents brought back from Okinawa but then I realized that even if I drew it from my view of it as a still life, I would feel like I was copying/ taking the carver's idea/creation. I started thinking about something else I could do but all I could think of was a fish. My choice was also somewhat shaped by my parents life of travel when they were little. My dad traveled the world when he was young because his father believed that people should experience as much of the world as they can before they get 'tied down'. My mom traveled mostly throughout the U.S. and Asia because her mom and dad were in the military so they got to move around with him and live on base. Now, since they both moved around so much when they were young, they want to settle down, aka: no big trips for me or my brother and sisters, so I thought I'd draw something from a place I want to visit. I can't believe I'm saying this, but my inspiration was mainly food. I had been very hungry at the time and was talking with my table partners about our favorite restaurants when Chinese and Japanese buffets came up and then I remembered that most asian restaurants are where there are the huge tanks of fish and decided I'd draw one of those fish-a koi fish. The only color I'm absolutely set on is my 1st color, celedon, because I absolutely love that color. I was 1st introduced to it in cereamics and it quickly became my favorite glaze along with moss green, its a color that's in the ocean but you only see it on rare occasions. I'm expirimenting with my second color but so far the ones that look the best are a dark grey/blue and a maroon w/ a purple tint, dark colors look the best, ligh colors make it difficult to focus on the print. I was going to make my 3rd color a black-outlining the fish's scales and fins- but I'm not sure if I'll even add it anymore because they already look pretty cool without the black.