What I did today

Recently my beloved invited me on a date to the Legion of Honor museum to see the Japanese print exhibit. Today was our day. After seeing as many of the European paintings as we could take in without overwhelm we saw this special exhibit.

We attended the post-Impressionist exhibit at the de Young Museum last month; these were the Japanese prints that were influential to the Europeans. So now I have a more complete understanding and, most importantly to me, I got to see Hokusai's Cresting Wave. When I took a printmaking course a few years ago I struggled (mostly unsuccessfully) to accurately register two colors, but the Japanese printmakers were working with something like 14 or 16 colors, each of which had to register exactly on top of the layers that came before. I'm in awe!