Friday I went with some friends to our little Bowers museum to see the Ito Jakuchu exhibit. Ito was born in 1715 in Japan, was a monk and did scroll and screen paintings. It was a great show and only the first half! It is now closed but the second half opens on June 18th. Most of his screen paintings had what he called an absence of color. It was interesting trying to capture the brush strokes with my micron pen. Yukon actually did a little brush painting of a crane in the lower right corner.
The scroll paintings had lots more color. Andora wanted me to try the tiger so I did. He looks a little juvenile even though he was an adult male. I'm not sure I have the colors right on the lobster but I like him. The bougainvillea branch was from our flowers at lunch at the museum restaurant, Tangata. Very yummy lunch, good company and an excellent exhibit, well that equals a great day in my sketchbook.
Robert Bateman 5" x 7" Sketchbook
Pen and Watercolor
5 comments:
boy I sure wish that I'll retire soon so that I could travel a lot more and sketch all day long =)
Love your sketches, and they are great inspiration
these are really great sketches! how is that museum? i have never been there.
Great drawings, great journaling! I love the page with the squares, it's a neat idea for a journal page. I'm fascinated by everything Japanese, so, great subject, too!
Looks like a really interesting exhibition, thanks for sharing your sketches.
These are very interesting sketches! I expect it is a great expanding experience to set these down.
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