#great wave

[spookybokchoy]

Avatar- The great wave off the Northern Water Tribe Commission, Parody of Hokusai's great wave off Kanagawa

[franz-bauch-foto]

Bavarian State Library Munich

[kelogsloops]

Cloud Ladder to the Moon watercolour & mixed media on paper

Excited to share that I’ve been part of 3dtotal's latest book project: Hokusai: An Artist’s Tribute! Fourteen artists (including me!) were invited to reimagine masterpieces of Katsushika Hokusai. You might not recognize his name, but you definitely know his iconic work, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (yes, THAT wave painting).

We each documented a 15-step process showcasing how we created our pieces from start to finish. Each of us shared insights into our inspiration and artistic choices throughout the process. In my chapter, you’ll see how I recreated Hokusai’s original ink drawing, ‘Daoist Master Zhou Sheng Ascends a Cloud-Ladder to the Moon' to this very painting here

More info about the book & prints here: https://bit.ly/40jLdWL

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prints | tutorials

[saturnyukaa]

s4 amalia redesign. as a treat

[everythingdice]

𝔊𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 𝔚𝔞𝔳𝔢 🌊 A hand-painted design of a timeless classic | webstore link

[cacodaemonia]

The great waves of coffee, orange, and beer by Elan Harris

[emvisual]

Hokusai. La gran ola

[strijkdesign]

Great wave

[eightiesfan]

Great wave

[acityofbirds]

studies of hokusai (at the legion of honor)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

TOLKIEN'S RECURRING DREAM: THE GREAT WAVE

From his childhood, Tolkien experienced a recurring dream: a Great Wave, towering, leaping inexorably over the trees and green fields. The terrifying thing, even when "half awake", was the feeling that it was more of a relived memory than a bad dream. Tolkien felt that there was something of his personal experience in the event. This dream would recur for many years (in a letter to a reader, he confessed that he stopped having it after writing "The Fall of Númenor"). Tolkien himself later referred to it as "my Atlantis complex".

Years later, while writing The Lord of the Rings, he assigned this dream to Faramir, a character he always defined as "the one who most resembles me" among those he invented:

"This reminds me of Númenor," said Faramir, and he was amazed to hear himself speak. "Númenor?" repeated Eowyn. "Yes," said Faramir, "the land of Westernesse that sank into the abyss, and the great dark wave that swept over all the green meadows and hills, and that swept forward like a darkness that never ceased. I often dream of it."

~The Return of the King. The Steward and the King.

Tolkien never wanted to discuss this “terribly revealing dream,” especially not with his children. As a result, Tolkien did not learn until years later that, remarkably, his son Michael had experienced the same recurring dream of the Great Wave in early childhood:

"I say this about the 'heart' because I have what some might call an Atlantis complex. Possibly inherited, though my parents died too young for me to know such things about them, and too young for them to have passed them on to me orally. Inherited from me (I assume) by only one of my children, though I didn't know about it until recently, and he didn't know I had it. I mean the terrible recurring dream (which begins with memory) of the Great Wave, towering like a tower, advancing ineluctably over the trees and green fields. (I have bequeathed it to Faramir.) I do not think I have had it since I wrote the "Fall of Númenor," the last of the legends of the First and Second Ages"

~The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 163.

[lilystrations]

Started the new year off with a museum trip to see some Hokusai works. I somehow forget how much I love speed sketching. ✨💛✨

[tacoroach]

🌊Great (Vapor)wave 🌊😎

[bobafettuccini]

The Littlest Wave off Kanagawa

[thezeldaverse]

[everythingdice]

𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕎𝕒𝕧𝕖 🌊 Crystal D4s