Posted on October 29, 2013 [Permalink]

Continued from [Arts of Japan #7 - 6] : printing steps 7 ~ 8 | Starting point of the thread was [Arts of Japan #7 - 1] : carving begins

Although we can't see the eaves at the very top, they still cast a shadow ...

Doing these gradations is leaving me a bit cross-eyed here, so for a break, let's add in the sky. Now that a good amount of the building is done, it's possible to get the depth of tone worked out.

This is actually a totally different pigment (Prussian Blue), but at these very light levels of saturation, there's almost no difference in appearance.

The thread continues in [Arts of Japan #7 - 8] : printing steps 11 ~ 12 ...