Early Gyotaku Prints 1990

The First Experiments in Fish Rubbings
Below are some early experiments with rubbing fish skins on paper.



Title: "Silver Bass" (4 of 7)
Medium: Direct fish rubbing on Rice Paper
Size:11.5" x 16"
Date: 1990



Title: "Carp"
Medium: Direct Fish Rubbing on Rag Paper
Size: 14" x 11"
Date: 1990



Title: "Feeding in the Lilies"
Medium: Direct Fish Rubbing and Water-lily Rubbing on watercolour stained rag paper.
Size: 29" X 20"
Date: 1990
Note: This year opened up to the discovery of Japanese Gyotaku prints. My studies were spent at the Library researching
Leonardo Da Vinci codex's for use of found objects in nature and to the discovery at The Museum of Natural History, collections of Gyotaku references. I was inspired by what I discovered.