Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Bonita Bacalhau (Codfish project), Digital sketch as of Apr 8, 2025



It's time to start working on my codfish project.  Every year some 50 area artists are invited to decorate a wooden codfish form to be displayed and then auctioned off to support the Marblehead Festival of the Arts.  This year I am going to decorate my codfish with a pattern inspired by Portuguese tiles.  I am returning to a theme that I used a number of years ago when I painted "Bela Bacalhau"*.  But Bonita will look different from here older sister Bela, first of all because the shape of the codfish form has been revised since then, and second because I will use a new design and different colors.  I have been thinking about Bonita for a while, but yesterday I actually tried some ideas out on my iPad.  I came up with this (very rough) sketch, which I cleaned up a bit for posting in iPhoto. I used Procreate to make this sketch, and Procreate captures your work as you draw, so I plan to publish the resulting video tomorrow.  
*Posted here May 26, 2016

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