A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Friday, 28 May 2021
Thursday, 20 May 2021
The Four Seasons
I'm just bumping and reposting an older work in the hope someone will comment on it?
#kanji #hanzi #technozi #typography #inkscape
Do you think the colors gradients filters and textures I added reflect the character of the four seasons?
Sunday, 16 May 2021
Buson - Poem Card -The sea at Spring
#Harunoumi #Buson #haiku
This was posted to my #patreon JVartndesign in 2019 but no one claimed it as an reward. It will still be available as apost card or download when I decide to move it to my Red Bubble or DeviantArt or both. My rule is anything thats be up for longer than a six months or a year gets deleted since I figure no one is going to scroll down that far!
Its a haiku by Buson Note that for the repeated verb notari the tari part is a suffix !
Thursday, 6 May 2021
Sunday, 2 May 2021
Evening Bells BUT at Kanazawa
#evningbells #japaneseprints #ukiyo-e #kanazawa
Evening Bells is a popular theme in Japanese art especially landscape prints due to the well known EIGHT VIEWS THEME. It was so popular that ukiyo-e print artists did series of views from other areas that were not Edo or Lake Biwa.
The temple and bells are implied rather than depicted with the artist invoking an evening view of boats and a village near or perhaps the outskirts of Kanazawa and temples suggested by roofs just showing as mists form on the hillsides above.
Notice how few colors and tones there are blue and a gradient thereof, a black gray gradient, two greens, and some browns.