Fish head

 

Sometimes life gives you something to draw. Other times, Morrisons does.They had a bargain offer on a whole salmon that had been ready filleted. So what elso do you do with the head, but draw it.

Then of course make a print of it. I needed to do something black-and-white, and this seemed ideal. I like how it came out. Eric Gaskell came by this afternoon while I was working on it. He commented on my tendency to bring death into my work. Which of course I have done here. I've also been thinking of some drawings by Diether Kressel I've seen of fish heads. His look more... philosophical about it, whereas mine seems much more tortured. Somehow channeling some of Otto Dix' war pictures.