{"id":727,"date":"2021-03-09T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=727"},"modified":"2021-02-15T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:24:26","slug":"redux-of-the-brushwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/redux-of-the-brushwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux of the Brushwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I started tracing emaki images for scroll blanks, the very first one I did was from the Eshi Zoshi<\/em> emaki. This emaki recounts the rise and fall of a young poet appointed to the court. I decided to do some “back to the well” blanks as part of my current work, just to see if I’d gotten any better over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eshizoshi01-05.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The outlines are good, but clearly, I had forgotten everything I ever learned about coloring this image. This one went straight into the “scrap” folder as soon as the paint was dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eshizoshi01-0<\/a>6.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That’s better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eshizoshi01-07.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This one’s OK, although the skin tone came out a bit dark. I added some Hojo mon<\/em> to the zabuton<\/em> pillow for some reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eshizoshi01-08.png<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m back in the swing of things! Good inking, good coloring, and I even added some light shading to give it a bit more dimensionality and texture. I’m pretty happy with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I started tracing emaki images for scroll blanks, the very first one I did was from the Eshi Zoshi emaki. This emaki recounts the rise and fall of a young poet appointed to the court. I decided to do some “back to the well” blanks as part of my current work, just to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,417,419,3,5],"tags":[421,439,438,218,437,423],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-emaki","tag-eshi-zoshi","tag-ink","tag-painting","tag-scroll-blanks","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}