My second Japanese-themed painting in my expanding Orientalist work. I struggled with this one; my original intention was to have the foreground as a dark layer in front of the background as in the Shin Hanga prints that these paintings are influenced by but I just didn't like it so I painted a lot more light coming in. I wanted a rainy evening atmosphere that I'm not sure if I got across, I originally toyed with idea of painting in streaks of rain over the whole painting like the Japanese Shin Hanga artist Kawase Hasui did but decided against it. I think it's come out OK and will continue with the general theme of a solitary light in an evening landscape which started in my Roadside America painting "Station Blue" and has now come across into my Orientalist work.... each informs the other.
Apologies to Japanese speaking people for my bad translation of Forest Shrine into Shinrin Taisha... it's probably wrong but I'm relatively unfamiliar with their culture at the moment.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including the colours used in previous posts on this blog.
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