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Japanese woodblock style prints
Flat colour, crisp keyed outlines, a sky that fades from blue to cream. These scenes borrow the look of the Japanese colour woodblock prints of the 1830s, the decade of the great landscape and snow series.
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In a Japanese woodblock print, an artist drew the design, a carver cut it into blocks of cherry wood, one for each colour, and a printer pressed them onto paper by hand. The printers' graded skies, called bokashi, and the new imported Prussian blue gave the prints of the 1830s their famous colour. I borrow that look, the flat colour, the outlines and the grain of the wood, for scenes it was never used for: a sandworm on Arrakis and a lamp-post in a snowy Narnian wood.