{"id":731,"date":"2021-03-23T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=731"},"modified":"2021-02-15T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:05:25","slug":"diseased-brushwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/diseased-brushwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Diseased Brushwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The paintings are not actually diseased, of course. The original scroll is called the Yamai no Soshi<\/em> emaki, which is “Scroll of Diseases and Afflictions”. This is a pretty unpleasant scroll overall, but there are some nice details. I particularly like this image of a calm maidservant carrying her mistress’ burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yamainososhi01-05<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’m clearly back into the swing of painting by now. The inking is smooth, the color is even, and the shading is good. I even put little escarbuncles on the package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yamainososhi01-06<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorite comic books is Usagi Yojimbo<\/a> by Stan Sakai<\/a>. Even when he’s working in black and white, he usually adds graphic interest to the clothing of characters by embellishing the fabric with repeating graphics. I decided to use this effect, adding little cherry blossoms to the maid’s kosode<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yamainososhi01-07<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here I added little ikat<\/em> patterns to the kosode<\/em>, and gave the package a tie-dye coloring. This started when some of the blue from the robe ran over into the wrapping cloth, then I tried to cover it up with some red, which just made it look like whatever was in the package was leaking blood. So, I had to do still more work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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yamainososhi01-08<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This one got a reasonably smooth gradient coloring, made by mixing up some yellow paint, then adding orange, then adding red. I’m happy with how this turned out. The coloring is pretty smooth, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The paintings are not actually diseased, of course. The original scroll is called the Yamai no Soshi emaki, which is “Scroll of Diseases and Afflictions”. This is a pretty unpleasant scroll overall, but there are some nice details. I particularly like this image of a calm maidservant carrying her mistress’ burden. I’m clearly back into […]<\/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":[443,421,438,437,422,423,442],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-diseases","tag-emaki","tag-ink","tag-scroll-blanks","tag-sumi","tag-watercolor","tag-yamai-no-soshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}