Cornish John Dory Gyotaku Print

Cornish John Dory Gyotaku PrintThe Cornish John Dory. What a beautiful fish! So challenging to print though. If you aren't familiar with Gyotaku the process is to take an actual fish, yes really, and apply ink to the surface of the fish. When this has been done a light paper is pressed over the surface, in this case I used a Chinese rice paper. I use a high quality permanent acrylic screen printing ink. In the printing process the paper gets stretched by the fish and isn't suitable

almost prehistoric form of the Garfish in exquisite detail

or those drawn to work with layered ecological meaning

What a challenge

This was my first time printing wrasse

What a beautiful fish

Additionally

Finally I take a second sheet and press that with a palm brush onto the glued print

The tentacle is laid out

First I take a flat board larger than my paper

It will be rolled in acid free tissue and sent in a poster tube

I'm happy to discuss arrangement of framing and shipping with the use of acrylic glazing

It was made on Chinese Xuan paper and has been flattened using the wet mounting process