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Dude Fish (top) Underwater Fish (bottom) pillows are available in 4 styles, swim left or right.

Dude Fish (top) Underwater Fish (bottom) pillows are available in 4 styles, swim left or right.

Dude Fish (top) & Underwater Fish (bottom) swim to the left or the right. Printed on and backed with 100% cotton artist’s canvas trimmed with black cotton piping, finished with a gold tone zipper for easy insertion of your pillow form.
Finished size: 10″ x 18″

$70.00 USD

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Bubble Fish Pillows

The Square Bubble Fish pillow swim to the left or the right. Printed on and backed with 100% heavyweight cotton trimmed with black cotton piping, finished with a durable white zipper for easy insertion of your pillow form.
Finished size: 16″ x 16″

$55.00 USD

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To order these fabulous pillows please use the form on the ORDER PAGE.

fishnwavesDude Fish right pillow 10″ x 18″ shown with custom color backing, SPECIAL ORDER.
Wave pillows 24″ x 24″ available as SPECIAL ORDER.

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Heads and Tails Pillow Sets Available Now 

Printed on and backed with 100% heavyweight cotton canvas
Trimmed with black cotton piping
Finished with a durable zipper for easy insertion of your pillow form.

Special Offer!
Order a pair: 14″ x 14″ Heads AND Tails! for $165.00 USD

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Heads and Tails! Prints

Giclée print on watercolor paper
Image size 10″ x 10″ paper size 12″ x 12″
Available unframed only

Special Offer!
Order a pair:  10″ x 10″ Heads AND Tails!  for $140.00 USD

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Half Fish Pillow is shown with 8 piece coaster set.

Where else do these fish swim?

Placemats in 12 styles. Dude Fish and Underwater Fish swim left or right with or without handpainted stripe.

Placemats in 12 styles. Dude Fish and Underwater Fish swim left or right with or without handpainted stripe.

Hand Fringed Placemats

12 Styles, with or without handpainted painted stripe
Printed on 100% artist’s canvas
Coated front and back for easy cleaning

$45.00 USD set of 2 without hand painted stripe

$50.00 USD set of 2 with hand painted stripe

Special order colors available. 
Quantity discounts available.

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To order these fabulous placemats please use the form on the ORDER PAGE.

 

Dude Fish (top) Underwater Fish (bottom) coaster sets available in 2 styles. Swim left or right.

Dude Fish (top) Underwater Fish (bottom) coaster sets available in 2 styles. Swim left or right.

Hand Fringed Coasters

Set of 8
Printed on 100% artist’s canvas
Coated front and back for easy cleaning
They’re also a puzzle!

$40.00 set USD

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Prints

Fish prints available in 4 styles. Dude Fish (top) or Underwater Fish (bottom). Each swim left or right.

Fish prints available in 4 styles. Dude Fish (top) or Underwater Fish (bottom). Each swim left or right.

Dude Fish Prints

Giclée print on watercolor paper
Image size 10″ x 18″ paper size 14″ x 22″
Available unframed only

$120.00 USD

Square Bubble Fish prints available in 2 styles, swim left or right.

Square Bubble Fish prints available in 2 styles, swim left or right.

Square Bubble Fish Prints

Dye sublimation print on 100% cotton canvas
Beautifully machine hemmed, ready for a frame
Or hang as a banner

Size 20″ x 20″
Available unframed only

$35.00 USD

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To order these fabulous prints please use the form on the ORDER PAGE.

FINE ART FISH

WINDOWFISH:  ANATOMY OF A PAINTING

Fish painting in studio

Fish on Easel

Tree of Life

Tree of Life painting    

Creating a painting doesn’t always, as a matter of fact doesn’t usually, follow a set of rules.  Such was the case for WindowFish which was generated from Tree of Life.

A commissioned work, Tree of Life was not accepted by the client; hence I ended up with Tree of Life back on my easel.

And there it sat. And sat. And sat, and sat, and sat.  And it was moved from here to there and back again. That summer I stared at it for weeks.

 

Inspiration for TreeFISH

Inspiration for TreeFISH

Enter a photograph of the side of a building left after the adjacent building had been torn down. Photographed downtown in NYC when Joseph and I were driving. The photo was tacked to the studio wall awaiting its use. 

TreeFish painting over Tree of Life

Painting Fish

Composition Sketch

Composition Sketch

One warm summer evening my thoughts came together. I got up, grabbed a brush and began to quickly paint my favorite fish swimming from left to right directly over the TREE OF LIFE.  The underpainting was completed that night in B/W.  I went to color the next day as Joseph worked on the overall composition and pulling the materials together.

 

Joesph Painting

Joesph Painting

The next few days found us in the studio comparing the picture of the building with the original painting and deciding which symbols to let show through the “windows”. Declared finished after a week, we signed it. We used the same technique as we altered BLUE APPLE.

WindowFish

WindowFish. 60″ x 48″. Direct inquiries to khladu@comcast.net

WHY FISH?
I’ve always loved fish. The diversity of their shapes, sizes, colors, and textures gives so much to work with. The striped ceramic fish that Nana & Pops brought home from Bermuda in the early 1920’s while on their honeymoon, holds relatively the same place of honor hanging over our kitchen dining table in our family home since the 1940’s. Once again, my process draws on childhood memories of warm, lazy, exciting summers. That particular fish is the subject of the long linocuts; the basic shape, the catalyst for the black and white “Poisson Polka Dot”. “Poisson Polka Dot” came back to become the image for the home decor.

 

FISH PRINT

FISH PASTE

Original art not in private collection is for sale.  Reproductions are also available.
Commissions available.
CONTACT KAREN

Many images can be reproduced as wall murals or commissioned as wall art.
Contact: khladu@comcast.net for details.

See Fish Art as Home Decore 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

732.892.3678

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