HYDRANGEAS PAINTING

HYDRANGEAS 

are a beloved summer flower in Japan 

#hydrangeas #summer #rimpa #painting 

This is probably a student of Korin? 

 

SUMMER RAIN - HIROSHIGE

 

SUMMER RAIN AT SUHARA BY HIROSHIGE 

#suhara #hiroshige #japaneseprint #rain

There are many reasons to admire and enjoy Hiroshige's works. 

Firstly in this work the skilful use of ink gradients in the coloring. Tones of blue and gray mingling or spreading in parallel bands to create and depth.

Secondly his ability to suggest a vast background even with very little detail. The thin dark ban across the top suggests the rainstorm  is going to be a heavy prolonged one. The dark tones of the trees reinforce this.

Thirdly we have the human details the travellers running for shelter on a tiny entry way and the rider and his horse plodding along bent over like the the person walking behind them hindered by the very weight of the rain.

Hiroshige has taken a ordinary summer moment and transformed it to its essentials to a few lines and colors and made yet another masterpiece.

birthday break 2021

Please scroll down and enjoy older posts while I rest and prep for june posts

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?

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 !

Hokusai - summer flowers

HOKUSAI SUMMER FLOWERS 

#hokusai #summer #flowers Enjoy  

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.