I want to create an abstraction with real-life photos of geisha women/Japanese culture with watercolor Japanese paintings. I'm hoping to make an effect of reality and paintings meshed together. I may include landscapes and Japanese characters with the same idea.
Interesting idea! Just make sure to have a lot of research about Geisha practices and customs so it is accurate and not appropriating!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, I really don't know what to suggest until I see some of your process coming together. I feel like it'll be a challenge meshing reality with watercolor, but you've created some awesome images in the past so I don't doubt you can pull it off. Just focus on striking the balance between the two, so that it doesn't lean too far one way or the other. Excited to see what you come up with!
ReplyDeleteThis could be very interesting if you could put this in a way to show everyday life or something that is important. These pictures you posted show a culture of Japanese culture and what that were interested in. You should make personal to you give your feeling of your life but with the feeling of the Japanese style
ReplyDeleteI love this style! Japanese art is so beautiful. I'm curious to see where you take this. I think it will be a challenge to get the soft gestural appearance to blend well with the photographs, but if you can pull it off it will be really cool! I'm excited to see where you take this
ReplyDeleteI think this is great! From your other work throughout this semester, I think the idea of blending reality with a more painterly watercolor aesthetic is something that would really work with your style. I also like the idea of having a more realistic portrayal of a geisha, I know that historically they are often portrayed as ethereal or other worldly, basically they are never actually portrayed as being real human beings, especially in ukiyo-e art where basically everything is fanciful escapism.
ReplyDeleteI think what Cole suggested would be really interesting, to use the geisha, a symbol of the ukiyo-e "art of the floating world" to represent something very real-life.
Another thing to look at besides the ukiyo-e art would be at the yukaku, or Japanese pleasure districts, where geishas often lived.
Sorry if this stuff is kinda separate from your concept, I just think your concept lends itself really well to ukiyo-e art.
This is super awesome!! I can't wait to see these pieces. Wow, what a neat concept! I agree with Cole and Caroline. I think that would be a cool way of creating these pieces.
ReplyDeleteJapanese landscapes are some of my favorite, they can be simple and suggestive so i think watercolors would look really cool as the landscape going off the ukiyo-e art idea. Getting a real geisha to mix may be a slight challenge but I think you can make something really dreamy
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see where you go with this!! I love these style paintings; how they're simple with neutral faded colors. Will this be pure abstraction?
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of blending the two "worlds." Watercolor makes something not only seem more romanticized, but also gives you a great openner of how to include it in a photo: take a watercolor splatters and distribute throughout the page, then create your watercolor pieces inside those splatters. (if that doesn't make sense, let me know, I can try to explain it better).
ReplyDeleteYou can get watercolor splatter brushes for photoshop for that. Sadly, photoshop sucks with "painting" watercolor outside of an occasional brush mark here and there. You might want to paint your watercolor by hand or use a designated fine art software like ArtRage, Painterartist or Rebelle (but to use those effectively, you need a graphical tablet).
You can also explore the duality of today's Japan, a country that is as much rooted in tradition as it is in new technologies and progress.
This is a very interesting idea. I'm worried about the blending between the "style" of reality and the style of the paintings. I agree that maybe working outside of the computer first may work better for the direction you're going in.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to see how you will assemble this idea! Will you plan on drawing a significant amount, or finding photos to create the image? I have so many other questions, but I'm sure once you begin the piece, it'll all come together. I like the concept of combining the real world with art.
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