Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Japanese Wood Block art prints - Kawase Hasui

This is originally a wood block print by Japanese artist, Kawase Hasui.  The Japanese wood block prints revolutionized the European artists outlook 120 years.  The Impressionists were influenced by these wood block prints.  Even now, an artist can see if they can reproduce the techniques to learn from a master.  This is what I did.  Above was done as an experiment with art markers and white gouache paint for the snow flakes.  So you can see the abstract shapes of the foreground snow in to the middle snow.  The same design considerations go into the snow cover and branch shapes on the pine tree.  I hope to be able to capture snow and design as well as Hasui did.

1 comment:

  1. Unfortunately, I do not know the beauty of snowfall in Japan.
    Only the unrelenting heat and humidity of Okinawa!

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