Catfish Test Prints

Teally-blue made up of thalo blue, thalo green, white and base.



A failed print, but it gives me an idea for another colorway: ocre on grey.




An ocre test print.





And another one.

Ok, I Like This One

I'll probably change something while I'm carving it, but I like this combination. Balance black and white, not too fiddly, and the head is clear.

Bill asked me last night, "How are you doing these?" ;-> Paint Shop Pro of course. ;-j. The catfish on the block is currently solid black and I'm just using the erase feature to "draw" the white areas. Just like a monoprint. ;-]





Carving away. ;-]




Looking like this.





And this. About time to see how it prints.

Faux Print Catfish Patterns

Sylvester the catfish.



A couple of pattern ideas for my catfish.

I think that's too busy.



This one is just a little ruffly.

Too much white? I like the black head.

A darker tail and fin to match the head.

Faux Catfish

Paleo-Catfish faux print (grey scale mirror scan of block)

Now I need to google a few cat patterns and fish patterns and see how I'll trick out my catfish.

paleo-catfish wip

I could have stained the block a little darker, but it's coming along nicely.






It's really going quickly. Have to stop often and stretch.







Pretty much done except for the kitty. I'll work on it tomorrow.

Paleo-Catfish

I'm not sure which way it's supposed to go yet, but I'm leaning toward the top one. I drew the bottom one. I used the body from my dolphin block and a cat head. I still need to marry the two better. I like the mouse. Maybe he's a real mouse that wanders into the cave and is looking at the catfish.

Don't know the size yet either. I have 4"x6" and 6"x8" blocks. Or I could do something else. It was just time to work on a new paleo-critter.

I enlarged the body a bit. Still fiddling with it.

And a little bigger. The head is cartoonishly large. I'm trying to find a happy medium between kewt and balanced.

Baa Baa Test Print I Like

Ok, I've got a test print I like. The purple can be a tad lighter and the yellow can be cleaner, but I like the balance with the green in the corners.