This is a print of my painting of a marlin done on a library card catalog card for "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. In the book, a poor fisherman struggles against a giant marlin he has hooked while fishing alone in the sea.

The print is done on ivory card stock paper to replicate the look and feel of card catalog cards, which librarians typed up on index cards. It measures 3 x 5 inches, the same as a real card. The print ships in a clear archival sleeve tucked into a protective cardboard photo mailer.

To see more library card art, visit the “Library Card Catalogue” section of my shop at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/WingedWorld?section_id=11288915

My painting was inspired by this passage in "The Old Man and the Sea":

The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out. He came out unendingly and water poured from his sides. He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showed wide and a light lavender. His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out.