#arowanas

AROWANA TORMENTS THE RAT

Prince Ghas would be a tyrant. This was plain to see. He was spoilt and a scold; he enjoyed beating Lasha the chambermaid's daughter just to see what shapes her bruises would make.

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Another linocut plate. I was fairly negative all the time I worked on this: the lino material was kind of powdery; I'd made mistakes in the sketching; the fish looks derpy; the composition is too empty at the bottom; there's not enough detail in the rat; my cuts aren't even or precise enough.

Our fifteen-year-old neighbour Lisa had come over to make linocuts, too. She made a rabbit and a Welsh dragon. She was very tolerant of my constant bellyaching.

"You got to be positive," she said. "It looks good, and you'll be happy when it's done."

And while I'm still not one-hundred-percent happy with it---yeah, I'm happy with my derpy fish.

EGRET ARRESTS THE AROWANA

But he stumbled, because the branches overhead hid the moon's face---and before he could scramble upright again she had a spear tip biting his throat.

Thus was the murderer known as Fish Lips finally caught by the warrior called Wing.

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Managed to work on another linocut plate today. Not super happy with the egret: her head's too big, her tail looks off, her left wing is broader than her right. And I legitimately messed up her eye: a small chunk of the lino material tore as I was cutting ...

(When I whined about this to Sharon I got scolded for perfectionism. But hey: fussing about supposed faults literally nobody else can see is a traditional artist's trait. So fair's fair!)

On the other hand: love the gawping arowana. Awk!