- Imagine
- 21 December 05
- Illustration Friday
- 31 Comments
....if trout were made from Japanese betting tickets!
Medium: Staedtler Permanent Lumocolor on 7 Japanese betting tickets.
Size: 250mm x 60mm x 40mm
Time: 1.5 hours (heaps of fun)
This is a drawing(?)/paper sculpture of a trout that I completed today, hope it qualifies for IF.
When I came back from Japan I brought back some local betting tickets, mainly for (quick) drawing, but I was struck by the printed patterns on them and in some abstract sense felt they reminded me of fish scales and markings. Then along comes the IF topic, and like usual I despise the topic and decide not to enter..... until I run into some handy web inspiration. I've always loved fly-fishing, so why not combine drawing, betting tickets and sculpture.
Inspiration: Paper Forest [run by one of our own IF members, Jaime Zollars] and Yoshikazu Fujioka [fly-fisherman/artist - check out how these things should look like].
comments
Detlef, you knock me out. What a fabulous sculpture and ingenious idea. I love it!
Posted by Karen Winters on 21.12.05 at 03.17pm
I spent the summer painting fish, but certainly never came anywhere close to you in the realm of imagination. What would be even cooler is to use paper with direct fish prints on it. Can’t remember what that printmaking technique is called, but I believe it’s also Japanese?
Posted by andrea on 21.12.05 at 03.30pm
so darn cool and fabulously creative!!!
Posted by the crafty-girl on 21.12.05 at 03.51pm
Wow, I love it.
Posted by Shelly McC on 21.12.05 at 05.07pm
I absolutely LOVE this Detlef!~!!! Have Origami King Manboy here and he thinks you are more than a King!
Posted by Anonymous on 21.12.05 at 06.30pm
That’s awesome!! I love it.
Posted by Misa on 21.12.05 at 08.09pm
This is so creative and soooo amazing…what a great piece of sculpture. That must have been really fun (and challenging) to do.
Posted by carla on 21.12.05 at 08.45pm
Wow! you are so imaginative, Detlef! So rewarding a trip to the East isn’t it. How did you sculpt the fish? It’s awesome.
Posted by Christine Lim-Simpson on 21.12.05 at 10.28pm
Very cool! It’s that instant of inspiration that makes any IF topic exciting.
Posted by Nita on 21.12.05 at 11.00pm
I love this so much. Very fine work. Cheers!
Posted by Holly on 22.12.05 at 01.00am
Detlef, this is fabulous!! I especially love hearing that you despised the topic. That’s really the essence of the challenge sometimes - despising the topic yet coming up with something as fun and creative and beautiful as your ticket-trout. Great job!
Posted by annie b on 22.12.05 at 01.05am
Paper sculpture looks like fun. The betting tickets lend just the right amount of color, and I love the drawn in details, and the fins. Great piece for imagine.
Posted by angelique on 22.12.05 at 01.18am
...you’d be in heaven. This is Great! I love it.
Posted by Pink FiFi on 22.12.05 at 01.24am
I know I’m repeating myself, but I ADORE this!! This is a breakthrough, I’ll bet you. Congrats to you!
Posted by Laura on 22.12.05 at 01.31am
Very nice and imaginative! It’s a 3-dimentional illo! :o) I love it. And thanks for the fine links (Love to do origami and kirigami)...
Posted by Merlinprincesse on 22.12.05 at 01.42am
you’re the man, detlef.
I think this is a really beautiful object.
I will post at some point, the works I did on junk mail, although I don’t have many images.
I am inspired by your fish, and I thank you for that.
another great post.
Posted by scott hollingsworth on 22.12.05 at 02.03am
Talk about out-of-the-bucket thinking! What a catch!
Posted by Ly3n on 22.12.05 at 04.03am
This is EXQUISITE. I love your take on imagine—completing the sentence with something concrete. And the writing on the tickets becomes scales on the fish beautifully. Nice job.
Posted by christina on 22.12.05 at 06.19am
Fun! Excellent too.
Posted by Cheri on 22.12.05 at 07.44am
Wonderful. So unique!!
Posted by AscenderRisesAbove on 22.12.05 at 10.07am
Well, thank you one and all…this little exercise has generated quite a response.
Just a few observations:
This was fun, and the sculpting is easy once you have the template, the fiddly bits are managing the cutting and glueing of the betting tickets….very serious fun.
I loved the puns that some of you incorporated in your comments.
And, finally to Anon if I’m more than the King then I must be the Emperor (probably san clothes - not a pretty sight).
Posted by Detlef on 22.12.05 at 10.19am
love it!!!!
Posted by valgalart on 22.12.05 at 01.19pm
This is so cool. Are you going to mount it on your wall, on a traditional looking wooden plaque?
Posted by Urban Convert on 22.12.05 at 01.37pm
That is super cool!
Posted by michele Melcher on 22.12.05 at 01.40pm
I agree with all of the above comments but I still have to jump in and say that I too love these fish - everything about them, from the tickets you used - the whole concept.
Posted by Laurie on 22.12.05 at 04.47pm
So beautifully fluid and almost metallic looking - I am SO going to try to origami my junkmail! This is fabulous Detlef - thank you so much for posting it. Spookily synchronistic with the day I read this link
http://www.dannygregory.com/2004/04/inspirational_j_1.php
on Danny’s site and then found myself a copy of the book ....
Posted by Elaine on 22.12.05 at 06.20pm
very nice! :o)
Posted by Majane on 23.12.05 at 01.51am
You took the top photo with the camera in your mouth ?
Posted by modroom on 25.12.05 at 07.59am
Urban Convert: No wooden plaque, but I do have an idea for something else.
Modroom: Yes, it took a lot of doing…..seriously they are my son’s hands and I took the photo over his shoulder.
Posted by Detlef on 25.12.05 at 10.34am
Good Grief that’s amazing. How’d you do that? And how are you going to display it? Is it like paper mache? Seriously impressed!
Posted by janey on 25.12.05 at 01.19pm
I love it.
Posted by hal on 23.12.08 at 02.26am