Description
“The bridge across the Columbia River at Hood River, Oregon—the river too calm today for windsurfing.”
A color painting by Lu Kesi based on a black and white woodcut illustration in the Chinese Ming dynasty Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. I like to copy ancient paintings for the sake of practice, colorize them (most old Chinese landscape paintings are in black and white), and sometimes add something—like this title—that updates them. Except for the style of the bridge, this could just as easily be the Columbia River Gorge where I grew up as somewhere in old China.