{"id":794,"date":"2021-06-01T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=794"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:06:53","slug":"photo-tracing-brushwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/photo-tracing-brushwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo-tracing Brushwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to get better at creating traditional-looking artwork from photographs. I had a couple of photos from our trip to Japan for the 2019 braiding conference, so I decided to try tracing them and making some Sesshu-inspired scroll blanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Duck Pond (01)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This first one is actually a composite of two photos. I had one photo of the ducks, and another of the distant shore of the pond. I combined these to create a little bit of perspective. I’m really happy with the way this one turned out. The ducks are attractive, and I was able to show the reflection of the shoreline in the water nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turtle Rock (01)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’m somewhat less happy with this one. The turtle and the rock just are not very interesting, and the rocky shoreline at the top is just a bunch of gray blobs. Maybe with some color it could be nice, but maybe not. They can’t all be winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bird Tree (01)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I tried doing this one as a gray wash only artwork, but the tree came out looking like a big gray blob on a stick, so I added a myriad of little daubs in four different colors of green. I kind of like it now. The bird is very visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should note that I have expanded my “SCA Emaki<\/a>” page to include most of my more recent explorations of Yamato-e brushwork. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to get better at creating traditional-looking artwork from photographs. I had a couple of photos from our trip to Japan for the 2019 braiding conference, so I decided to try tracing them and making some Sesshu-inspired scroll blanks. This first one is actually a composite of two photos. I had one photo of […]<\/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":[480,477,421,479,218,437,481,478,451],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illumination","category-japanese","category-painting","category-painting-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","tag-birds","tag-ducks","tag-emaki","tag-illustration","tag-painting","tag-scroll-blanks","tag-trees","tag-turtles","tag-yamato-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}