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More preparation to decorate my codfish for the Marblehead Auction. (Some 50 area artists decorate wooden cod cutouts which are then auctioned to support Marblehead Festival of Art.) This year I am returning to the theme of Portuguese tile, and have named my fish Bonita Bacaulhau. I had already made a digital sketch of the pattern on my iPad using Procreate, but I decided to change the colors to make a sharper difference from Bonita's predecessor, Bela Bacalhau, created in blue and white. So I decided to use a turquoise and a dark blue combination that is sometimes used on Portuguese tile (though it is less common than the blue and white. I opened the file in Procreate, copied the file, and modified the colors.
(part nine of the Failed Dolphin Hunt)
This was the only kind of marine creature we found, besides the ducks, which was somewhat disappointing but also an excitingly surprising deviation from the plan.
There were three of these codfish swimming in the shallows, feeding on what must have been algae or something on the rocks. They didn't seem to mind us being there at all, but swam leisurely around apparently barely aware of our presence. They probably had more important issues on their mind, such as food.
(yep, I know that dolphins aren't fish)
Photos from a night a Codfish Hollow with performances by Pieta Brown and the Taken, Chastity Brown, and Jodie McGill and Fulklort. If it's been said once it's been said a thousand times ... Codfish is one of the most unique concert venues in the world, attracting top acts to a barn surrounded by corn. These photos are part of my on-going project At the Bottom of the Driftless.
Photos from a night a Codfish Hollow with performances by Pieta Brown and the Taken, Chastity Brown, and Jodie McGill and Fulklort. If it's been said once it's been said a thousand times ... Codfish is one of the most unique concert venues in the world, attracting top acts to a barn surrounded by corn. These photos are part of my on-going project At the Bottom of the Driftless.
National Dish of Jamaica at The Native on the hip strip in Montego Bay, one of the two places with free shuttles from the hotel
Photos from a night a Codfish Hollow with performances by Pieta Brown and the Taken, Chastity Brown, and Jodie McGill and Fulklort. If it's been said once it's been said a thousand times ... Codfish is one of the most unique concert venues in the world, attracting top acts to a barn surrounded by corn. These photos are part of my on-going project At the Bottom of the Driftless.
I worked on this project again today. I am decorating this wooden codfish cutout for the Marblehead Festival of Art. Some 50 area artists have been invited to decorate wooden codfish to be displayed in downtown Marblehead, and then auctioned off to benefit the Marblehead Arts Association. This is my third year participating, and this year my codfish, Cecelia, will be decorated with musical scales -- C scales. To get ready, I drew and inked my design on paper (posted here on April 22). Then I drew the design onto the fish with pencil, and applied the first round of ink with metallic Sharpie markers, and followed with metallic gold and silver (Inkball pens). Today I began with some cleanup with white paint, and then finally got to apply the pearl silver iridescent paint. Because this paint has a bit of texture, I couldn't apply it first. Well, this part of the project was very labor intensive, and because this piece is due on May 15, I probably put in three or four hours on this, over the course of the day. It's a subtle difference from the white background. The color is in between pale gold and pale silver. (In fact, there are lots of cars this color.) It was hard to control and hard to see what I was doing, but it finally started to look the way I wanted it to. So late this afternoon, I put Cecelia up on the wall and took her picture. I am now painting the edges and the back. If I see mistakes, I will fix them, but I am not planning to make more changes, so this is Cecelia. If you would like to see last year's project, follow this link to see "Bella Bacalhau," my Portuguese codfish: www.flickr.com/photos/randiart/26803421380/
Lunch @ "Viva!", a Portuguese restaurant.
Seriously, not a bad edition of this quintessential Portuguese dish - right down to the slightly fibrous texture.
Enjoyable!
Photos from a night a Codfish Hollow with performances by Pieta Brown and the Taken, Chastity Brown, and Jodie McGill and Fulklort. If it's been said once it's been said a thousand times ... Codfish is one of the most unique concert venues in the world, attracting top acts to a barn surrounded by corn. These photos are part of my on-going project At the Bottom of the Driftless.