• Nostaglia

    I am feeling what an old student of mine called “nostaglia”. This is because, of course, I JUST FINISHED MY DRAWING BOOK, Dreams and Visions! I have been working on this slowly since October of 2013. The key word here is slowly. All of my drawing books take some time…

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  • Collagraph

    I have a brief history with collagraphs that is fraught with tension. On the one hand, the collagraph is an awesome side branch of printmaking. And I loves me some printmaking. On the other hand, it is a natural medium for generating beautiful, unexpected textures in your artwork. But on…

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  • On the Printing of Fish

    I am a beautiful print and a delicious dish! I have continued with my gyotaku experiments. This tilapia is probably my most successful attempt at making one of these prints to date. It’s pretty big at about 14 or 15 inches and the scales are really prominent. That has been…

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  • Of Gyotaku, Real and Artificial

    The number of gyotaku posts here are all out of proportion to the actual number of prints I have pulled. I am actually far more interested in making drawings of the fish than in pulling prints of them. “Ah,” you say, “then why are you polluting the internet with all…

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  • More Gyotaku… sorta

    Gyotaku literally means “fish rubbing” in Japanese. So what I have here isn’t exactly gyotaku properly speaking; it’s more like plant-taku. (All of this taku talk is making me think of gyotacos, which would be delicious right now… a little of that sour cream-type sauce that my wife makes with some…

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