Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Đông Hồ Prints: Set the main animal large at center and align the rest in a row
- Type
- Set in Đông Hồ Prints's manner (A short inscription cut into the block and left in the margin), and let Lubok's lettering (Hand-written text poured around the picture and framed as one unit) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Đông Hồ Prints's material (Dó paper coated with shell powder, natural pigments printed color by color); bring in exactly one thing from Lubok (Thick woodcut outlines with red, yellow and green washed past the line).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Popular Prints, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Đông Hồ Prints Reusing the satire as cute animal artwork drains the village philosophy out of it and leaves a souvenir motif.
- Lubok Tidying the outline and keeping the color inside it removes the misregistration and rough hand that carried the warmth of a popular print.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Đông Hồ Prints (Style, 17th century–) and its accent from Lubok (Style, 17th–19th century). Structural cues: Shell-powder paper that glimmers; A limited natural palette; Satire through animals; Renewed each New Year. Accent cues, used sparingly: Thick outlines; Flat hand-coloring; Image and text together; Satire and story. Composition: Set the main animal large at center and align the rest in a row. Type and lettering: A short inscription cut into the block and left in the margin. Let one material quality come from the second style: Thick woodcut outlines with red, yellow and green washed past the line. Mood: Play, Intimacy, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Đông Hồ Prints 17th century– / Style / Popular Prints
The woodblock prints of Vietnam's Đông Hồ village: printed with natural pigments on dó paper coated with ground seashell, New Year pictures like 'The Rat's Wedding' carrying village philosophy in satire and auspice.
- Lubok 17th–19th century / Style / Popular Prints
Russia's popular print: thick outlines, flat hand-coloring, image and text sharing the sheet, circulating sacred stories and satire cheaply. The avant-garde rediscovered it in the 20th century as Russia's native form.
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