'Ello John - Got a new motor?

This representation of a fish like a John Dory was done with the old transparent watercolour inks. I wet the watercolour paper in the shape of the fish and then dropped carmine ink onto the wet area, followed by cadmium yellow. The ink stays within the boundaries of the wet area and the colours are mixed by tilting the paper in different directions to get the ink to merge. Then I put some rubber masking fluid around the perimeter of the fish and did the same procedure of mixing the colours on the paper for the background.