squid prints

I did these back in April, when I volunteered at the SFCB Earth Day open house. Didn't get around to posting about it due to computer issues.. so here they are.

These prints were made from a humboldt squid that was donated by the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. This is a smaller squid; the mantle is about 16" long (they can grow to almost 6 feet in mantle length!). Water based block printing ink was applied to the skin of the squid, and then the paper was laid over the top and smoothed down.

with labels on butcher paper

on some lovely rice paper

monochromatic alphabet

My entry for the 2012 Sketchbook Project. Finally, finished and mailed off. Whew!


HUGE thanks to my buddy Erin Ellis for scanning all of the artwork and saving me literally hours of color-correcting that would have been necessary had I used a camera in my low-light apartment to capture the images.

the cover... in monochromatic fabric

i also used the stamps i found at the flea: link to stamps

did you know that zebu come in a miniature version?

the end

i used the lowercase in the back

my barcode