more Follow the Herring

Artlink have been running fishy Fridays... Octopuses constructed with willow withies, tissuepaper and PVA glue, lifesized crabs made from slab paper mache,

and today....sewn fishes...

I've been buzzing with an idea to make Herring dolls....I'm getting a bit narked * that the herring girls are being left out.....its all marine life so far........

So I designed this one....a  prototype and in my rush to create it....when I was stitching the face with one eye on the TV....I managed to do the face proportions upside down...so had to stitch a chin to reduce the biggest jaw you have ever seen !!!

Its based on a picture from Good Old Hessle Road by Alec Gill

The woman second from the right on the bottom row is definitely from Hull....her son recognised her when the book came out. 

This photo is at the front of the book... due to a clipping from a newspaper being sent to the daughter of the lady on the left.... they were reunited after 55years. They were travelling companions following the shoal of herrings down the east coast of Britain  in their younger days and they lost touch......It was a 76th birthday treat for Kitty on the left. (Cissie is on the right)

I would like to try to do this picture with organza and a soldering iron....cream black and grey.....layered up so that you would have to stand at the right distance to see a ghostly image emerge as the eye makes sense of the shapes.....don't think it will photograph well though....

* narked....means cross...annoyed....irritated....