Category: chigiri-e
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Souvenir from Japan trip
Been a few months since I posted but should have some more pieces soon, cut recently came back from Japan and picked up this for 500 yen from a used book store While I am not exactly sure what it is of what it says, I believe this is a poetry card.
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Red and yellow Adora
A surprise project which is very simple but which I am most pleased with. This was done very quickly at an arts and sciences workshop the Flame Tree Ball in the Shire of Adora, the brief was it had to made of paper, made on the spot and to be themed to Adora. I chose…
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Blue sky and snow – finished
The two pieces have finished now and I am quite pleased with the result, though the contrast seems to work much better with the electric blue one
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Blue sky and snow – ornamentation
The next step was to add the silver metallic ornamentation, the first part I did with silver mica powder and aluminium foil which I had cut with a scalpel into small pieces. Previously, I have used metallic origami paper and this meant it had to be placed on the page rather than scattered. Once the…
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Blue sky and snow – Assembling the pieces
First stage was creating the shapes which meant creating the template. This I did by tracing the shape of the blue section from the original picture and then cutting it out very carefully. I then used the template as guide to perforate and tear the paper, as I did in the Ise hills piece. For…
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New project, blue sky and snow
I do rather like using the blue paper and this one gives the chance to use it quite a bit. This piece is again from the Sanju Rokunin Kashu, this page is from the Yamabe no Akahito collection. Firstly I traced the template from the original, this I used as a base to tear the…
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Laurel prize at Rowany Festival
Once again I exhibited my stuff at Laurel prize at Rowany festival, this time showing progression alongside a large pile of “stuff I wasn’t proud of” Hope to have some new projects soon
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New piece – Ishiyama Giri
This is a new piece I am working on based on a page from the Ishiyama-giri. This is it in it’s first stages while drying, the plan is to decorate it with silver ink. The original manuscript is below.
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Genji Emaki Monogatari
For an Arts and Sciences competition category, For a Love, I decided to look in to the novel Genji Monogatari, seen as the worlds first novel by the female writer and poet, Murasaki Shibiku. I have chosen to base this off the 12th century manuscript of the work. This manuscript uses both gold and silver…
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Layering experiment
Working some more on the gradated layered paper, this time with the lighter, hairier paper and with a darker under layer. I do rather like this, and chose to decorate in silver rather than gold.
My Japanese Art Creations 