The love of Uncle Maruo got me into some of Yoshitoshi’s work, which got me into Ukiyo-e (a kind of of Japanese woodblock printing). I blew my top off when I found out I lived pretty close to a museum full of Ukiyo-e!

Sorry about the camera flash well…pretty much ruining the pics :). Not only that, but between the dark room and my lousy camera, the colours aren’t nearly as good as they looked when I laid my eyeballs on them!

Bat!
There’s some great colour going on in these pics in my opinion. I think the aging of the paper only makes it that much cooler.

How did I not notice the wicked die on this dude’s noggin before!? If I could be slain by any warrior…

I really recommend that people who are into learning more about colour to check out this kind of work. It’s taken me a long time to realize that tons of the greatest stuff in art is the oldest. See how retarded that makes me sound???