Japanese art fever!

I have been gripped with an intense and possible irrevocable love for Japanese Art. I love the simplicity that at the same time is paradoxically very detailed. I like how the paintings do not focus on creating dimensional figures and forms but are still very intricate in defining and almost celebrating the forms they create- whether clouds, trees or kimonos on women. The background is the most interesting bit, usually in earthly colours and with beautiful textures.

Here are a few examples of the work I have been staring, lovingly at. I must mention here that the paintings have been taken from Google and the links provided thereunder will take you to the original website, where you may find the artist and other information.



http://media.photobucket.com/image/japanese+art+winter+/verushka666_album/Japanese%20Art/060b.jpg



http://www.erikthomsen.com/publications/latest



http://fineartamerica.com/featured/japanese-landscape-kirill-danileiko.html


https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Luneko-Koitsu-Tsuchiya-Miyajima-in-Snow/285588

I have been spending hours Googling and then staring at Japanese landscape paintings and I want to now paint landscapes of Dehradun in that form. The new year is just round the corner and I want to create four paintings of the landscape in Dehradun during these four seasons and make 2012 calendars from these paintings.

As a start, however, I am going to paint from two photographs that I took at a lovely restaurant that I visited yesterday with some friends. Up in Rajpur in Dehradun, there is a restaurant called Orchard. It is a Tibetan/Chinese restaurant and has the most beautiful outdoor dining setting with bamboo clumps and a stunning view of the surrounding mountains.

Here are the pictures: