Ceramic Tile of Pufferfish as Faux Cyanotype

I have taken to designing more items for Etsy and Zazzle lately, namely digital prints etc on Etsy and all manner of items on Zazzle. Below is just one such item. Hopefully, I’ll be adding more later (I spend too much time creating and not enough time promoting).

This is a faux cyanotype (early forerunner to photography) image of a Pufferfish that I created and made available as a ceramic tile and a print. For anyone that doesn’t know, on Zazzle if you as a buyer see a design you like on one product you can always see what that design will look like on another product and then buy it.

Here is the link direct to the tile

And the link to the instant digital download of 14″x14″ image ready to print at home or online over on Etsy.

From WIKI: Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowers, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, toadle, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab. They are morphologically similar to the closely related porcupinefish, which have large external spines (unlike the thinner, hidden spines of the Tetraodontidae, which are only visible when the fish have puffed up). The scientific name refers to the four large teeth, fused into an upper and lower plate, which are used for crushing the hard shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.

The majority of pufferfish species are toxic and some are among the most poisonous vertebrates in the world. In certain species, the internal organs, such as the liver, and sometimes the skin, contain tetrodotoxin, and are highly toxic to most animals when eaten; nevertheless, the meat of some species is considered a delicacy in Japan (as 河豚, pronounced fugu), Korea (as 복, bok, or 복어, bogeo), and China (as 河豚, hétún) when prepared by specially trained chefs who know which part is safe to eat and in what quantity. Other pufferfish species with nontoxic flesh, such as the northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus, of Chesapeake Bay, are considered a delicacy elsewhere.

The species Torquigener albomaculosus was described by David Attenborough as “the greatest artist of the animal kingdom” due to the males’ unique habit of wooing females by creating nests in sand composed of complex geometric designs.