Bonita Bacalhau (Cod project) as of Apr 23, 2025

Here is my entry for the Marblehead Cod Auction as it looked on April 23rd, 2025.  This annual auction is held to benefit the Marblehead Festival of Arts. Area artists decorate wooden fish cutouts which are then displayed in downtown Marblehead and later sold in an online auction. (You can bid from anywhere).  This year, I am decorating my codfish with a design inspired by Portuguese tile, and so I named her "Bonita Bacalhau". On the 23rd, it was time to begin adding white, first to the center of each of the fish tiles as well in borders marking the main part of the body.  I also added areas of white between the "tiles", to look like grout.  This was a bit tricky. First I widened each of the blue lines separating the tiles so there was enough room to add a strip of white. This looks simple, but it was tedious and it ook a while! You can see that this still needed to be cleaned up, but even so, I already liked the result and I was happy that I did it.