KG011 Kawasaki Art Supplies

K-Gansai

Hemp paper board, watercolor paints

Painting size: 38cm x 45.5cm

Framing size: 52cm x 59cm

Kawasaki Art Supplies is located in Saiwai-cho, Kanazawa City, about a 15-minute walk from the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.

They are also the distributor of Kiyoshi World's original works.

I painted this picture using a 100-color set of Kichijo Gansai paints that I had specially ordered for me.

The supplier who received the order was astonished when they saw the K-Gansai series paintings, saying, "I've never seen anything so vividly colored using Gansai before." Gansai is semi-transparent, and compared to Western watercolors, its colors are milder and more subdued.

In order to make those watercolors appear more vibrant than the original colors of the paints, I did not use conventional painting techniques.

K-Gansai (Japanese watercolor paints) are based on color balance.

And to bring power to the screen, the key points are:

The surface of the paper has been deliberately torn.

It can be described as a new form of Japanese painting, employing a completely different technique from traditional Japanese painting.