Painting framed in white wood and white mounting card.

Art: Fujiwara, 38th station of the Tōkaidō (Kyoka edition)

Fujiwara, 38th station of the Kyoka edition of 53 stations of the Tōkaidō, by Hiroshige.

Final painting propped up against my black piano. The painting shows a caped person from behind, on a horse loaded with crates at its sides. At the foot of the raised area they are is a village and a few people. There is snow everywhere and people wear large hats and capes.

I messed up my stamp and then couldn’t paint over it with gouache as the red stamp ink I use kept seeping through! I had to cover it with acrylic white paint which is like plastic, but also is shinier than gouache, so it shows.

Here is a photo of my work area just as I was done:

Messy work table where we see the finished painting taped to a large cutting board in front of the propped up book I used as reference. The tools I used are scattered around: paint tubes, white acrylic paint marker, black and grey ink pen, brushes.
Messy work table where we see the finished painting taped to a large cutting board in front of the propped up book I used as reference. The tools I used are scattered around: paint tubes, white acrylic paint marker, black and grey ink pen, brushes.

I did a second version of it the following week.

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