KISSY KISSY FAIRY

As you may have recently seen over on Jono's blog, we've been revisiting January's doodle week. Click here to read about his Fishbowl.
Both Jono and I have been working on and off on these between other things and to be honest, returning to them now demonstrates perfectly the need for us to up our print frequency.



Last night two of my doodles made their transition into print. It's interesting how, as you pull a print, you can be faced with something very different from the picture that you formed in your head some month before. Part of the problem in leaving too much time between concept and execution is that ideas are forgotten and the rational behind certain inking experiments grow hazy. Even something as fundamental as colour choice can be misremembered.
Printing Kissy Kissy Fairy (pictured above) was straight forward. A perfect run of 20 with no errors but the influence of the white bamboo is a curiosity. As I've inferred before, when it came time to ink the work I'd to a certain extent forgotten the divison of colours and had the whole while envisaged a print where only the Chinese numbers were white. And I think perhaps the original intention would've seen the purple of the character line art block out the non-orange areas leaving only the white sheets strung to the background stocks. But as I say, the white does seem to contribute nicely to the print and complements the two other colours rather well. The scene appears gentler, perhaps more delicate and inviting.