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Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting

Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seite, ink and color on silk
Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei

In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image.

Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know.

The museum lists the piece as an album leaf, and there are links to similar works by the same artist at the bottom of the page.


Comments

3 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting”

  1. Such wonderful mastery of such an incredibly challenging medium.
    Thanks Charley.

    Bill

  2. Since it’s painted on silk, the white is probably pigment with a binder, like rabbit-skin glue.

    1. That makes sense; thanks.