We've had a couple of days of wild weather which whipped up the seas and sent waves crashing up the cliffs to the tree line. It was too wet and windy to try to get photos yesterday so early this morning I bundled up and went down to the beach in Flatrock, Torbay and Middle Cove to watch the water and take some photos.
This little sea star was ripped from its ocean bed and placed on the beach, overlooked by seagulls and crows luckily. I immediately thought - gyotaku printing! and the little fellow came home with me.
I've played around with prints on several papers, including watercolour, card, print paper and tissue. I will continue to experiment over Christmas to see what I can come up with. I rather like the effect on tissue paper and recall seeing some experimentation with a sort of collage technique using tissue and printing over it. I just need to remember where I saw it!
I put a slideshow on my blog of some of the photos that were taken today and will try for a video once I can get it uploaded.
Have a wonderful holiday everyone and the best of new years.
