Tonal underpainting for "The Rain Temple of Iro Ki" in which I move on to Japan for my Orientalist fantasy paintings influenced by my love of Japanese Shin Hanga prints. A while ago I bought a book of Yoshida Hiroshi's prints and then more recently my friend Rory Walker dropped off three more books of this work including a monograph on Kawase Hasui who is my other favourite artist from this period and indeed it is the rainy landscape subject prints by him that is the influence behind this painting. The layers of semi silhouetted elements is perfectly suited to my work as I have painted these since my days as an illustrator. I intend to work within a limited palette of greys but based around a certain colour which I will decide on over my breakfast coffee tomorrow morning.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
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