I am a huge fan of Japanese art. One of the things that attracts me to it is their economy of line, if you’ve paid attention to my rough sketches, you might notice I use an overabundance of small strokes and part of the reason I did this piece was to experiment with the longer, more elegant strokes of the Japanese style…
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A Young Concubine Amused to Discover a Cherry Blossom in Her Sake Cup
Alex Ledante
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Like you I also love Asian art. Especially Japanese art. Even the title of this post gave me pleasure. I too would be extremely delighted if I found a cherry blossom in my cup. LOL.
If you drink sake outdoors during the hanami festival and you’re by a cherry tree then the odds are pretty good it will happen to you, too!
Japanese culture is so beautiful!!!
I couldn’t agree with you more!
I’m not familiar with this art. But I liked the post.
Ukiyo-e means “Pictures of the floating world” and is applied to the Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th to 19th centuries. They were art for the common people…
The kimono lines are especially elegant. This is a wonderful piece!
I don’t know about wonderful, but it certainly is a funderful piece
“Funderful”? Awesome! You just made this artwork even better by describing it with a new word! Love it!
Compound words are pretty sweet
There is a mutually exciting thought between wonder and confidence that contradicts with no wonder at all when first seeing the cover of this post in a row alongside another post. It must be Alex, but is it? There’s only one Japanese painter here and that’s not Alex, but… Alex likes Japanese art too… So?
No way that was good enough to be Fukufuku’s work. Speaking of which, where is that guy?
Which one? You mean Fukufuku? If he is the one you mean, we haven’t seen him for quite a while. If I am not mistaken, the last works I have seen here is Musashi.
Turns out he was sick but is better now and back on the scene with two new works, go check them out!
Yep! Fukufuku with his two cool works! Thanks for the info
Japanese culture is so beautiful.
I couldn’t agree with you more, this is most likely due to their fixation on appearance…
Wonderful artwork indeed! I relly like it!
This was a fun departure from my usual approach
I am also a big fan of Japanese art, more so the art of the olden days than of today. They are simple, yet very elegant just like yours. Congratulations. Great art work.
Modern manga is a direct descendant of Ukiyo-E, and while that influence is felt more strongly in some styles vs others (moe vs seinen) they’re all coming from the same place, just evolving differently
I am glad to hear you liked my little experiment. I’ve got a chibi version of this somewhere…