FRAMED A4 GYOTAKU OF ANCHOVIES

FRAMED A4 GYOTAKU OF ANCHOVIESThe anchovy is used as a bait fish for catching sea bass as well as an ingredient for a Cesar Salad. So I got my anchovy from the local fishing tackle shop. A small fish with bags of personality, the scales flake up from the fish leaving this almost polka dot finish to them. By using a very thin layer of ink, I've managed to pick up some of the scale markings which has taken me lots of trial and error to work out how. To make this print the paper has

Bees are well loved

or those drawn to work with layered ecological meaning

Using three acrylic ink colours

The original fish was sourced frozen from a local fishing tackle shop on Anglesey

This A3 Gyotaku print features both an adult John Dory

As it's A5 in size

This is wooden block that is traditionally used for signatures in Japan

To create this design

I've enjoyed working with them

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The two sheets bond together as the dry and all the creases and wrinkles are removed from the paper

the paper is cockled and wouldn’t lay flat