Day two hundred and fourteen: I’ve encountered a couple of impressions from Katsushika Hokusai’s color woodcut series “36 Views of Mount Fuji” (circa 1820s) at work the last few weeks. When I poke about my computer for travel photos of things to draw, I usually run across one I took in 2004 of Mount Fuji around dawn, as seen from Tokyo. It was a particularly clear morning, with just a bit of haze around the base of the mountain. Although Fuji and Hokusai are Japanese, I was thinking of the early 20th-century Scottish printmaker, D. Y. Cameron, while I was sketching, and tonight’s sketch evokes a bit of his landscape style.
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