Props - Prints

Nineteenth-century Japanese prints often used a pigment called prussian blue, and rarely contain more than four colours in a print.

There is little tonal gradation. Shapes are outlined, often in blue. The most famous artist, Hokusai, produced many rural and coastal landscapes but is best-known for a series of prints, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which included his Great Wave of Kanagawa. For many people, Mount Fuji symbolizes Japan.

For the purpose of the Shinju film, two prints are needed in Valentine's room; one with the umbilical cord, another with a child on a leash. The idea is to design these prints in modern woodcut style.



It is an example of a woodcut print by Hokusai who is a famous ukiyoe artist in worldwide. This is his work in about 1832. It is decorated imaging the wave of the ocean with a blue light emitting diode.

A Photoshop tutorial is available at http://www.digitmag.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1466

THE UMBILICAL CORD

Based on the following photograph:



Umbilical cord

CHILD ON A LEASH

Based on the following photograph:



Leash

Idea for last (empty) frame is below's Japanese cherry blossom tree.



Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree

The prints are in simple, rectangular, black, wooden frames.