Sardine Lino Print Gyotau

Sardine Lino Print GyotauGosh that's quite a title! However this is what it is. I am sometimes frustrated working with small fish that they are so fragile, it makes them very hard to make a gyotaku with multiple fish on. I'm also just keen to keep expanding my practice and I like the idea of making these lino cuts at the same size of the real fish and then working with them in exactly the same way I would in Gyotkau. So as with the gyotaku, the fish lino cut is inked up and

I've printed some of them here

I love to watch the seasons change

it's captured a lot of the scale detail

this is a Japanese stamp of my name

backed with Japanese Masa paper

5cmx 34cm and with the mount is 42

Like all my gyotaku prints

Each piece is mounted

I offer this item unframed or you can opt for a framed version which will be posted out using an insured service

Rather than documenting a catch

finished with the refined Urauchi mounting method

it makes them very hard to make a gyotaku with multiple fish on