Michael- I save the fish that I use, they do NOT get tossed away, they go back into the freezer for the next session of printing. The fish is used many many times. After several years and numerous printings I bury them in my yard as fertilizer for the plants that I then nature print. The fish you eat is only one meal, the fish I print become art thet serve to remind people that fish are a very limited resource and we cannot keep catching them for food at the current rate. Nothing is wasted.
The fish I eat serves as a much better reminder of how valuable they are than an art piece would ever do. And it sustains my life. You say your art reminds people about over fishing but you're using real fish! Lol Just paint a fish if that's what message you want to portray, otherwise don't make up some excuse to make your art seem more meaningful.
Wow this was a great video! My 7 year old twins are going to do fish printing tomorrow at the public library. We didn't really know what to expect, but now we do! This video was simple, yet explanatory. Thank you! From the boys: "I like how the art looked really good" and "I like what happened in your video"
wonderful video. I paused often to take notes. Doin this with my kids and I never thought to block the fish first. That explains the past failures. Thank you !
You could use an acrylic ink for the fish painting, cheaper than oil ink, but would still have a very nice effect (I used acrylic ink in all my print-making at Uni, as well as print-making classes for elementary students I helped with). As far as paper goes, rice paper would actually be the cheapest for you to use and turn out the best. I suppose you could look for a porous & flexible paper to use instead at a paper supply store, but rice paper is quite cheap, if you look around!
This is so cool!! I wonder if we could do regular paper instead of rice paper? Also what kind of ink/paint can we use? I would like to do this project with elementary kids...
Jack-Wooton- Given the amount of waste from commercial and sport fishing to provide you with a fish to eat once, my use of a fish over and over is much less destructive to the population. Have you ever seen the Tskuji in Japan? Have you seen fish markets around the world that dump the unsold fish??? Do you realize how many fish are destroyed and not used from commercial fishing? The amount is mind boggling. By your eating fish you are contributing to the depletion of the resource. When I find a fish washed up on the beach and use him for my art the only negative action is the removal of a potential nutrient source for birds and small creatures. The impact of a few gyotaku artists around the world using a few specimens is miniscule compared to that of the food fish industry.
In my style, no, the fish is converted into a printing plate. The Hawaiian printers have perfected a method of printing then eating the fish- look at videos by Takeo or Naoki for this method
P.s. I did use a thick, regular paper in the printmaking classes I was doing with elementary kids, only the printing plates we were using were flat Styrofoam plates that they drew into and then applied the ink over top with rollers. I don't think such a paper would work for a fish print, because of the contours of the fish. But you could always try it out at home first, with a few different types of paper and see what happens. Let me know how it turns out! :)
Why don't you just paint a fish, there is not need to use a real one. Seems wasteful no matter how many times you use it and slightly contradicts what you said about taking to many fish from the oceans, you have just funded that industry.
Go to any grocery store and you will see just how much food is wasted all around you, animal and plant alike. Things go bad in refrigerators and in freezers, and on that note: what if this is just a fish that accidentally went bad and she's just made very good use of it? What's the difference (in terms of sustainability) if it's rotting in some landfill or being used in Gyotaku?
Michael-
I save the fish that I use, they do NOT get tossed away, they go back into the freezer for the next session of printing. The fish is used many many times. After several years and numerous printings I bury them in my yard as fertilizer for the plants that I then nature print. The fish you eat is only one meal, the fish I print become art thet serve to remind people that fish are a very limited resource and we cannot keep catching them for food at the current rate. Nothing is wasted.
The fish I eat serves as a much better reminder of how valuable they are than an art piece would ever do. And it sustains my life. You say your art reminds people about over fishing but you're using real fish! Lol Just paint a fish if that's what message you want to portray, otherwise don't make up some excuse to make your art seem more meaningful.
I've seen many videos where people do this very badly, and I must say you are truly the best I've seen! Thank you!
Wow this was a great video! My 7 year old twins are going to do fish printing tomorrow at the public library. We didn't really know what to expect, but now we do! This video was simple, yet explanatory. Thank you!
From the boys: "I like how the art looked really good" and "I like what happened in your video"
Beautifully done. Very simple, in a well-edited presentation. Thank you.
wonderful video. I paused often to take notes. Doin this with my kids and I never thought to block the fish first. That explains the past failures.
Thank you !
Thanks for taking the time to make this video! Great tips. Very excited to try this.
Beautiful Gyotaku, Heather. Great work!
First time I see gyotaku on oil paint... Nice job...
Extraordinary tutorial! Thank you! ❤️
You could use an acrylic ink for the fish painting, cheaper than oil ink, but would still have a very nice effect (I used acrylic ink in all my print-making at Uni, as well as print-making classes for elementary students I helped with).
As far as paper goes, rice paper would actually be the cheapest for you to use and turn out the best. I suppose you could look for a porous & flexible paper to use instead at a paper supply store, but rice paper is quite cheap, if you look around!
This is so cool!! I wonder if we could do regular paper instead of rice paper? Also what kind of ink/paint can we use? I would like to do this project with elementary kids...
My father bought three paintings in Tokyo during the Korean War. Beautiful!
this is awesome! will definitely try this technique, thanks for the tutorial!
Absoultly beautiful, Thank you for the tutorial.
Jack-Wooton-
Given the amount of waste from commercial and sport fishing to provide you with a fish to eat once, my use of a fish over and over is much less destructive to the population. Have you ever seen the Tskuji in Japan? Have you seen fish markets around the world that dump the unsold fish??? Do you realize how many fish are destroyed and not used from commercial fishing? The amount is mind boggling.
By your eating fish you are contributing to the depletion of the resource. When I find a fish washed up on the beach and use him for my art the only negative action is the removal of a potential nutrient source for birds and small creatures. The impact of a few gyotaku artists around the world using a few specimens is miniscule compared to that of the food fish industry.
In my style, no, the fish is converted into a printing plate. The Hawaiian printers have perfected a method of printing then eating the fish- look at videos by Takeo or Naoki for this method
Great! How do you frame it?
what does the spirit of the orient mean?
Heather, great video, thanks..
very nice, please an pflunder next
P.s. I did use a thick, regular paper in the printmaking classes I was doing with elementary kids, only the printing plates we were using were flat Styrofoam plates that they drew into and then applied the ink over top with rollers. I don't think such a paper would work for a fish print, because of the contours of the fish. But you could always try it out at home first, with a few different types of paper and see what happens.
Let me know how it turns out! :)
Beautiful
AWESOME !!!!
I clicked on the settings and changed it to .5X (half) speed. The music distorted, but i had time to read it all!
It's a shame that any text is unreadable. It needs to chill out & slow down because the rest is magnificent.
I clicked on the settings and changed it to .5X (half) speed. The music distorted, but i had time to read it all!
This is a great video. However, the slides move too fast to read.
Yes you are right!!
wonderful
well done
thank you for sharing :)
Nice~!!!!!
a bit too fast
The results are cool, but this is a waste of food, especially with our depleting oceans and rampant starvation around the world.
you don't need to be eating fish any more than he needs to be painting it... why are you suddenly concerned about a problem that you are causing?
seymourLlama there is something fishy going on around this place :)
Runtothemusic Better to use waterbased inks so that you can simply wash the fish completely and still cook it for dinner
Good point.
Why? Who says you can´t remove the skin and eat the fish?
Why don't you just paint a fish, there is not need to use a real one. Seems wasteful no matter how many times you use it and slightly contradicts what you said about taking to many fish from the oceans, you have just funded that industry.
Go to any grocery store and you will see just how much food is wasted all around you, animal and plant alike. Things go bad in refrigerators and in freezers, and on that note: what if this is just a fish that accidentally went bad and she's just made very good use of it? What's the difference (in terms of sustainability) if it's rotting in some landfill or being used in Gyotaku?
Really???!!! I mean,a fish that gets thrown away and not even eaten had to die so we could make a picture of it?Couldn't ya just have painted it?