Morning In An Octopus Garden Canvas Print

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A colorful Octopus Garden with Humpback whales. Back in the mid 90's I was doing a bunch of various hand pulled original prints using whatever hand printed methods I could, including some inventions of my own, particularly experimental methods of making lithographic prints by hand rubbing, (without a printing press). I made a fairly large print using a total of 101 different color plates to get the all the colors I wanted in my design of a humpback whale surfacing in a colorful burst of early morning clouds. Down below was a colorful reef with an octopus and other reef fishes. It took 101 days, one plate designed, drawn and tested and printed out per day. I thought it was great, a
classic, perhaps setting a world's record for most color plates used in a single print. Asking price was $1,000, but only one sold for $25. I had spent over $1,000 for the various plates and inks and handmade printing papers. One of my biggest failures. I lost all the other of the first 10 of a hundred...