Gyotaku Artist

Art saw a Sears ad in the paper that caught his eye.
 

Perhaps you remember how Art loves his t-shirts, especially since our move back to Hawaii. It's pretty much all he wears.

We eat at a restaurant called Gyotaku which mom explained long ago meant fish prints.

I got this from Wikipedia:

"Gyotaku (Japanese 魚拓, from gyo "fish" + taku "rubbing") is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing may have been used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an artform of its own."

We had a memorial service to attend first on Saturday morning but we were still able to make it in time at Pearlridge to look at the t-shirts on sale which had the Gyotaku artwork of Shane Hamamoto.

Shane Hamamoto demonstrated how he did the fish prints with an actual fish.

He first carefully dribbled paint on the fish.














He then pressed special rice paper on top and made sure to make contact with the entire fish.

He then paints in colors to add even more interest to the fish print.

It was really fun to watch.

We bought three t-shirts that Shane autographed for us. Two of them are for our son-in-law and son. The third is for you know who.

We really enjoyed meeting Shane and told him his t-shirts would be traveling to Illinois and Pennsylvania. However, I imagine those shirts won't be worn for another six months.

As for that t-shirt you see Shane holding up... if you see a guy wearing that around Hawaii, it might be Art.