Takei Sansyōdō
This old shop (called Takei Sansyōdō) that originally a sold writing brushes and all kinds of other writing supplies has beed relocated to the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and you can see it there still. It has been originally built in 1927.
http://www.tatemonoen.jp/panorama/east_jp/e06/
http://www.tatemonoen.jp/panorama/east_jp/e06/
I was interested in this shop for a while because the rumor says that Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for the boiler room in “Spirited Away” from the insides of this shop - it has a lot of hand-crafted small drawers that held once all the writing supplies - inks, brushes and others.
I wanted to paint this shop few times already but during all my visits to the museum the top windows were shut with storm shutters so I did not know how they looked. Just recently I got my hands on the “History of the Edo Tokyo Musem” book that was made with the collaboration of Studio Ghibli members. The book had a photo of this shop with the windows visible so I decided to paint it.
I used a style similar to my “Tokyo Storefronts” series but took some inspiration from the illustrations from the book (made by Studio Ghibli’s Oga Kazuo) and decided to make the lines with a brush and dark gouache rather than a radiograph to make the painting a little bit more light and watercolor-like.
Technical details:
* Sketch - 0.5mm mechanical pencil with RED leads
* Colors - my main Schmincke brand watercolors set
* Paper - Holbein Waterford White 300g cold press
* Lines - Winsor And Newton gouache, Perylene Violet
* Sketch - 0.5mm mechanical pencil with RED leads
* Colors - my main Schmincke brand watercolors set
* Paper - Holbein Waterford White 300g cold press
* Lines - Winsor And Newton gouache, Perylene Violet
Initial sketch.
