Your Plaice or Mine by artist James Christensen

Your Plaice or Mine by fantasy artist James Christensen 

 

Obviously, this fellow has been fishing for a good line for a long time. And now that he's found it, he's determinged to use it. He's definitely not your medieval-of-the-road lover.

 

"This painting started out as a play on words that occurred to me while I was dining on plaice in a restaurant in Stratford-Upon-Avon" says fantasy artist Jim Christensen. "As I developed the characters, I realized that the little would-be Casanova has been buying a plaice and standing near the fish market for days, waiting for an attractive lady to come out carrying a similar fish so that he can use that line on her! The question of course is: what does she reply?"

 

Your Plaice or Mine? A piscatorial pun if I ever heard one.

 

Print released 1986.