SOMETHING FISHY THIS WAY COMES (2018) by Michael Whelan

The tenth installment in his 2018 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project

Like most palette gremlins, this was just something I happened to “see” in the blobs of paint on the paper.

The night before, I was talking to Bob Mellilo (friend, helper, and huge Phish fan) about a riff he kept hearing in a Phish set. Auds and I agreed it was probably derived from an old 60s song titled “Pictures of Matchstick Men” but the riff also made me think of an instrumental piece by YES called “The Fish”. Maybe in some obscure way that influenced me.

Included are several shots of the palette and my take on what I saw there. #2 - The palette paper as I found it. #3 - Turned around because I thought I saw something fishy there. #4 - A few lines I drew in with a pencil. The top image, of course, is what I ended up with.