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Flat Blue, Hard Edge
Fuji across still water, cut into flat unmodulated colour behind a firm black keyblock line, with one hard band of Prussian blue weighting the top of the sky.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Redraw the reference scene as an Edo-period Japanese polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) in the manner of Katsushika Hokusai. Keep the composition - snow-capped conical volcano centred on the horizon, wooded ridge across the middle band, flat water in the lower third. Everything described by a firm black keyblock outline of even weight, filled with flat unmodulated colour areas and no photographic shading. Sky: flat Prussian blue with a single hard gradated band (bokashi) deepening at the top edge, pale and clean at the horizon. Mountain: bold geometric silhouette, the snowcap flat unprinted paper-white with a few sharp angular fissure lines, the lower slopes flat deep indigo. Middle-ground ridges as flat overlapping planes of indigo and slate. Autumn woods reduced to stylised repeating tree clusters in flat vermilion, burnt orange, ochre and deep green, each mass outlined. Water: flat pale blue with a few rhythmic curved outline strokes for ripples, and a stylised reflection. Scattered small birds as simple two-stroke marks. Visible woodgrain and slight registration offset between colour blocks, hand-printed paper texture, muted period pigments. No text, no seal, no cartouche, no signature, no border, no photographic gradient. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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