Posted by Dave McClean on September 02, 1998 at 21:20:49:
In Reply to: water color on silk posted by c.c on September 02, 1998 at 00:33:03:
: I HAVE TWO JAPANESE WATERCOLOR ON SILK,BOTH ARE SIGN ,BUT I DO NOT READ THE LANGUAGE,IS THERE A BOOK THAT I CAN BUY,TO HELP ME WITH THIS.I HAVE
: OWN THEM FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.THEY ARE FRAMED IN
: IN BIG BLACK MIRROR FRAM,PURCHASE ON THE WEST
: COAST IN 1949
Hi Curtis
Are you sure they're watercolors? I'm not an artist so I'm guessing here, but I'd think that
using water colors on silk just would'nt work.
I do know that Japanese woodblock print artists were very skilled in creating the appearance of
watercolors, so you may have a couple of woodblock prints, perhaps similar to the one by Eiichi Kotozuka illustrated
below. When I bought it I was sure that it was a watercolor until I took it out of its frame and discovered that
it was, in fact, a woodblock print on silk.
http://home.istar.ca/~dmcclean/PageMill_Resources/image13.GIF