FISH TANK BLUES I, II and III

I always wonder if fishes in tanks are bored!

These series of digital paintings are quite self-explanatory, the background paintings were inspired and mimic from Chinese ink paintings, however the texture surface were actually developed from coffee stains, yes COFFEE STAINS! The blue inks were actually coffee stains that were scanned, altered, filtered and finally saved as Adobe Photoshop Brush Strokes tools and painted painstakingly to create the painterly yet flat surface.

Typography illustrations like those from mangas or comics were then appropriated as sound, lettering and explosive effects to create a speed-like feel with an adrenaline rush.

Influenced by storyboarding, intentions are: When FISH TANK BLUES I, II and III are placed side by side, the idea is to create a sequence of a simple story of illogical thinking, hillarious explosions, that a Superhero Fish speeding off the crowd...To go with the flow or not?