The theme week for August is the Japanese artform called gyotaku, or fish printing. It is usually applied to rice paper, but it can also be applied to t-shirts. We had a gyotaku t-shirt made for Kathy's Uncle Harry for his birthday, will document the process over the course of this week.
Gyotaku artist Naoki Hayashi had an exhibition at the Nohea Gallery in Ward Warehouse. We had stopped to watch one of Naoki's assistants make t-shirts for a couple visiting from Michigan, then decided to have a t-shirt made for Uncle Harry.
Today's photo shows the fish being prepared for the printing process.
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It's so amazing to watch them paint the fish, then transfer onto a shirt!! That was a good choice for Uncle!! :-D
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