A rectangle of white paper imprinted in blue with the older child totoro character from the animated movie My Neighbor Totoro. It has a stout, round body with a big round white patch on its stomach. There are three chevrons on its chest. It has stubby legs and arms, long pointed ears, and big oval eyes. It is holding a leaf with a long stem as an umbrella. The carved eraser that made the print is laying at an angle on the upper left corner. The eraser and print are both sitting on a sheet of handmade grass green paper with long fibrous inclusions in different shades of green.

It seems like the older child totoro doesn’t get enough attention. I made this to help remedy that.

I actually carved this before the Jiji stamp, but am just getting around to posting it. The detail on this one was more challenging than the carvings that preceded it. I was still using the Speedball tool, and did not have the smaller 1mm gouge yet.

I used the Tsukineko VersaFine Clair Blue Belle stamp pad for this print.

There is an 18-second totoro imprinting video on YouTube.

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