Japanese backgammon, lacquer and monkeys!
Jul. 20th, 2008 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyThe suguroku box has its first coat of black paint and I Am Not Pleased. Will have to see how it dries, but it was a bitch to get it to mix and the coverage is kind of inconsistent and blotchy, despite my efforts to drag the paint along the grain of the wood as carefully as possible. Sigh. I'll probably have to sand the crap out of it, then do another coat or so - I may simply switch to something else for the second coat. If I get a nice result with that, THEN I can think about gold leafing the game board top and doing designs in gold leaf on the sides - and polyurethaning everything to a fare thee well.
Skies are still gray and it's bloody cold in the garret.
EDIT: Now that it's dried somewhat it looks less horrid. Will sand when I am sure it's dry and give it another coat. Not sure it won't require a third, but since I'm still mulling what the decorative motifs on the sides of the board will actually be, there's no rush.
While waiting for it to dry, I've been looking at period lacquers in my art books and online. While I can't find that many examples of extant suguroku boards from period, I don't think it's completely unreasonable to assume that motifs used on other decorative pieces of laquerware would not be appropriate.
Is this not gorgeous? http://www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0038219.jpg
In the meantime, while looking for an online image of the two monkeys with a suguroko board from the Choju Giga scroll (and this one is not very good), I found THIS http://netsukeonline.org/htm/monkeys_galore.html
While netsuke and ojime are pretty much post-period for the SCA (and men's accessories anyway), these are still a lot of fun.
Caught "The Prestige" again on cable. Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, David Bowie and Michael Caine make lovely company on a Sunday afternoon.
Skies are still gray and it's bloody cold in the garret.
EDIT: Now that it's dried somewhat it looks less horrid. Will sand when I am sure it's dry and give it another coat. Not sure it won't require a third, but since I'm still mulling what the decorative motifs on the sides of the board will actually be, there's no rush.
While waiting for it to dry, I've been looking at period lacquers in my art books and online. While I can't find that many examples of extant suguroku boards from period, I don't think it's completely unreasonable to assume that motifs used on other decorative pieces of laquerware would not be appropriate.
Is this not gorgeous? http://www.tnm.go.jp/gallery/search/images/max/C0038219.jpg
In the meantime, while looking for an online image of the two monkeys with a suguroko board from the Choju Giga scroll (and this one is not very good), I found THIS http://netsukeonline.org/htm/monkeys_galore.html
While netsuke and ojime are pretty much post-period for the SCA (and men's accessories anyway), these are still a lot of fun.
Caught "The Prestige" again on cable. Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, David Bowie and Michael Caine make lovely company on a Sunday afternoon.
