Yesterday I handed in
all my illustrations for Saurus Street book 5. This has been a very interesting
book for me to do as I decided to do some experiments in this book. Firstly, I
have created about 20 – 30 % of the main drawing in full colour. This would
seem nuts as the books are printed in black and whites. But having down loaded
a version of the books onto my tablet. I noticed that this illustration on the
electronic books are based in the orginal scans and have colour blushes from
where I had created the wash shading. This got me thinking about book 5. If I
created a number of the images in colour, it would give people the opportunity
to see the world of Saurus Street in colour.
Image: Thomas swimming
Secondly, I decided as
there wese a lot of water scenes in book 5, so I looked to one of my favorite
art forms for inspiration, Japanese woodblock print. This proved to be very
handy when drawing wave and water splash patterns. In my research I came across
one of my favorite woodblock prints by the artist Ando Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797–1858). I have based the image of the Grandparents house in book
5 on the composition and image elements of Hiroshige’s image of Evening Snow at Kambara (Kambara yoru no yuki), no. 16
from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gosantsugi no
uchi)年月日: ca. 1832–1833
Below are my
image if the Grandparents house and Hiroshige’s image.
Now both images together.
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