Journaling: In 2010, surrounded by gyotaku experts, I could not bring myself to print my fish on good paper because I thought I'd ruin the paper. In 2013 I knew that had been a mistake. And my new classmates, who had fewer preconceptions about what an ideal print looked like, were making great art from boo-boos. It also helped that I wasn't out for a perfect print, just ones good enough to photoshop into a brush. Ironically, half of the prints I used making my first two brushes were on newsprint.
Credits:
OScraps Homespun Collab, Anna Aspnes
If you want to know more about gyotaku, visit
Heather Fortner's site (it's seeing work like hers that made me afraid to print mine on good paper):
heatherfortner.com/a-step-by-step-guide/
