Nature printing has become one of our favorite hobbies in the last few years. We actually began in 1975 when we took a class at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. This class was primarily fish printing (gyotaku) and taught by our good friend Eric Hochberg who works at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. We learned "direct" gyotaku where we put ink on our fish and then pressed paper on top to get a mirror image. Since about the year 2000 we have been taking classes from a Japanese master gyotaku printer, Mineo Yamamoto, who comes to the US about once a year to teach his techniques. Mineo teaches the "indirect" method which is much more time consuming and produces an image that has much greater detail. Most of our images here are done using the "indirect" method on fabric. We belong to a wonderful group of several hundred nature printers called the Nature Printing Society (http://www.natureprintingsociety.info/)and enjoy learning new techniques at their annual Nature Printing Society (NPS) workshop.
Artist(s): Shane and Genny Anderson
Common Name: Common Thresher Shark
Scientific Name: Alopias vulpinus
Size: 120 X 30 inches
Date Printed: October 2010
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Shane and Genny Anderson
Common Name: Common Thresher Shark close up
Scientific Name: Alopias vulpinus with caligoid copepod on pectoral fin
Size: 27 X 18 inches
Date Printed: October 2010
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Giant Pacific Octopus
Scientific Name: Enteroctopus dofleini
Size: 67 X 40 inches
Date Printed: September 2010
Method: Direct
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Popeye Catalufa
Scientific Name: Pristigenys serrula
Size: 32 X 20 inches
Date Printed: September 2009
Method: Indirect
Showings: 17th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan November 2010
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Saddled Brown Rockfish
Scientific Name: Sebastes thompsoni
Size: 18 X 16 inches
Date Printed: May 2010 in Japan
Method: Indirect
Showings: 17th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan November 2010
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Finescale Triggerfish and Coral
Scientific Name: Balistes polylepis, Montastraea cavernosa, Fungia sp.
Size: 26 X 24 inches
Date Printed: September 2009
Method: Indirect
Showings: 18th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan October 2011
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Clearnose Skate
Scientific Name: Raja eglanteria
Size: 16 X 21 inches
Date Printed: December 2003
Method: Indirect
Showings: 14th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan October 2007
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Market Squid catching Krill
Scientific Name: Loligo opalescens and Euphausia superba
Size: 11 X 18 inches
Date Printed: March 2007
Method: Indirect
Showings: 14th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan October 2007
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Maine Rock Crab and Maine Rock Weed
Scientific Name: Cancer sp. and Fucus sp.
Size: 17 X 20 inches
Date Printed: August 2007
Method: Indirect
Showings: 14th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan October 2007
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Seahorse
Scientific Name: Hippocampus sp.
Size: 8 X 12 inches
Date Printed: June 2006
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Rock Crab
Scientific Name: Cancer anthonyi
Size: 18 X 14 inches
Date Printed: May 2005
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Rockfish
Scientific Name: Sebastes sp.
Size: 17 X 20 inches
Date Printed: December 2003
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: California Skate
Scientific Name: Raja inornata
Size: 14 X 15 inches
Date Printed: October 2002
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Spot Prawn
Scientific Name: Pandalus platyceros
Size: 15.5 X 14 inches
Date Printed: September 2006
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Genny Anderson
Common Name: Spot Prawn
Scientific Name: Pandalus platyceros
Size: 14.5 X 13 inches
Date Printed: September 2006
Method: Indirect
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Artist(s): Shane Anderson
Common Name: Puffer Shark (Swell Shark)
Scientific Name: Cephaloscyllium ventriosum
Size:
Date Printed: July 2006
Method: Indirect
Showings: 13th Annual International Fish Print Show, Tokyo, Japan November 2006
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Our XMAS card in 2005 was one of our nature prints - a great white shark. We made two prints - a silver shark on dark blue cloth and a grey shark on white cloth. Below is our xmas print and a few images of how we printed the grey shark on white cloth.
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