The finished piece. I could carry on, tweaking things here and there, but enough is enough. Ms Tanaka is a … More
Category: Japanese art
Smiling sunflower girl, Hitomi Tanaka, a working drawing still very much ‘in progress’…
…acrylic on a sheet of Canson watercolour paper, Aug 29 2019
Japanese beauty
Pencil on A4 paper
Work on sunflower girl recommenced
Aug 27 2019 I can see this is going to take several days work and much thought and perhaps modifications … More
Hitomi sunflower
painting in acrylics on a large sheet of Canson watercolour paper just started… long time since I used acrylics and … More
With reference to ‘Ode to Hitomi, a Japanese sunflower (large pencil drawing rephotographed under overcast sky)’ a few notes about Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture of a Japanese courtesan (after Japanese artist Eisen.) He was obsessed with Japanese woodblock … More
Quickly but accurately scribbled out tracing / drawing in pencil after an early C19th woodblock image of a beautiful high class Japanese prostitute
Okay, so the clothing is different, and the drawing is in a style peculiar to the East rather than the … More
