School of Fish Prints, Hatfield, PA

See you tomorrow at St. John's UCC's Block Party!

Prints made by the kids, t-shirts, my prints, and Kathy Stawasz's beautiful shells.

I'll be printing fish for the kids next Saturday, 5/30 at St. John's UCC in Lansdale. They'll get a print that they can take home to color. I'll also have prints, t-shirts and Kathy Stawasz's beautiful decorated shells for sale.

See you there.

Here's Bill, a volunteer from Longwood Gardens. He and Kevin, the bonsai curator, are our best friends today. I drove out the Longwood to pick up boxes of their excess chrysanthemum seedlings that the club will now train into bonsai. Mums are not the usual type of plant for bonsai, but since they grow quickly, you can get a credible bonsai in one season, rather than taking many years to get something that looks like a little tree. We'll learn a lot from this.

The mums that I collected around town didn't do well over our harsh winter, but some of them made it and will go into training soon. Club members should contact Lou to get their mums.

Friday night at the MidAtlantic Bonsai Society's Festivsl is in the books. Stop by tomorrow and Sunday to talk Gyotaku.

My article published in the Journal of the American Bonsai Society is at the link below. I thank the editors for going out on a limb and putting up a piece about fishes.

ABS Article | School Of Fish Print

My article about how understanding gyotaku aesthetics can improve your bonsai has just arrived. I'll get the scans up right away.

So, the eels came out just fine. The group prints are even better. See you this weekend at the MidAtlantic Bonsai Society Spring Festival.

It took some work, but the eels look great.

Hoping for better results today. I found a grocery store in Philly's Chinatown that sells live American Eels.

Next fish up on my bench, a big, fat grouper head. My question to all of you malcontents, should he have a half-smoked Pall Mall clutched in his mouth?