Gyotaku Fish print-Perch
Gyotaku is a Japanese technique for printing fish. In the late 1800’s, Japanese fishermen would take a fish from the days catch, ink the fish, to make a print, and hang it up at the market as an advertisement of their day’s catch. Now it is considered an art form. This is a Perch that we caught in Michigan, printed on 12×18-inch rice paper. It has a background on the paper called Suminagashi. It’s a Japanese technique where I float ink on the surface of water, then lay the sheet of paper into the ink to pick up the pattern. The fish is 11.5-inches.
Gyotaku is a Japanese technique for printing fish. In the late 1800’s, Japanese fishermen would take a fish from the days catch, ink the fish, to make a print, and hang it up at the market as an advertisement of their day’s catch. Now it is considered an art form. This is a Perch that we caught in Michigan, printed on 12×18-inch rice paper. It has a background on the paper called Suminagashi. It’s a Japanese technique where I float ink on the surface of water, then lay the sheet of paper into the ink to pick up the pattern. The fish is 11.5-inches.
Gyotaku is a Japanese technique for printing fish. In the late 1800’s, Japanese fishermen would take a fish from the days catch, ink the fish, to make a print, and hang it up at the market as an advertisement of their day’s catch. Now it is considered an art form. This is a Perch that we caught in Michigan, printed on 12×18-inch rice paper. It has a background on the paper called Suminagashi. It’s a Japanese technique where I float ink on the surface of water, then lay the sheet of paper into the ink to pick up the pattern. The fish is 11.5-inches.
