sketches

Day three hundred and twenty-three: A couple of days ago, I imitated a color woodcut of Mount Fuji in Japan. This afternoon, while browsing through travel photos, I came across a couple shots of the mountain as seen from Tokyo at sunset. Very different from the 19th-century version, with the sprawling, modern city laid out before the ancient volcano. Adding little spots of red and white city lights was one probably the most fun, and a simple touch that I think gives the otherwise abstracted urban landscape a surprising sense of realism.