New Images in my Zazzle

I added three new images to my Zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/halsart . The one showing here is the surf on the coast of Rye, New Hampshire, just after a Noreaster passed by.

I've been experimenting with Chigiri-e (literally: tear art) but I haven't achieved a piece I'm willing to share as yet. I'm having difficulty achieving a blend of colors. Just what translucent paper to layer over another colored paper to achieve a graduated color shift. It's more demanding than I thought it would be. I have twenty sheets of different translucent color but I wish I had forty different colors to achieve more subtle color shifts. I may break down and make my own. In fact I'm pretty sure I'll have to resort to making my own using white rice paper. In my previous posting, I included a link to an artist who knows what he's doing in this art form. I wish I could have him as a mentor. I much admire this art form.

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Chigiri-e

I highly recommend the http://www.wetcanvas.com/ free artists' web site. There's over a hundred thousand members representing every art discipline that I am aware of and some of which I'm aware of only because I discovered them there.

I recently remembered a television series , shown many years ago, on Japanese artists who were considered national treasures. I loved the series and one artist expecially. He used torn bits of washi paper (colored Japanese paper) and applied them to plain wooden dolls achieving amazing transluent qualities. Paintings are also made using this technique. I wanted to know more but didn't have the faintest idea as to where to start a search. I posted the question on the wetcanvas web site and within a hour I had the answer with links to examples of the art and links to instructions. What a site!!

The art form is called Chigiri-e: literally meaning torn art. I'm attaching a link to a web site showing examples of the art: http://keisol.com/tomomiwashi/default.htm . I haven't received permission to show any artist's work and I don't know of any in the public domain so I'm just offering the web site. Hopefully someday I can produce some work worthy of showing.

Some may consider this to be collage but it's really not.