Black Dragon Sumie on Silk Mounted in Kakejiku

This is another dragon painting by an artist in Virginia. I think he does very good detailed work. The colors on this were so vivid. I had to spray an extra fixative, but there was still a small smudge of blue that occurred during the mounting, which makes me very upset. Otherwise this turned out really nice.

I had originally thought to use two separate cloth patterns. One would be a light green with a very small pattern and a green ten/chi. I thought this would go well with the leaves in the painting...but when I put the cloths up next to the painting, I decided it was too much of a good thing and the green would drown out the dragon. The other is what you see in the picture. It is a gray/silver cloth with a nami (wave) pattern. The Ten/Chi is a shike cloth, and it was done in the Yamato Hyougu format for the scroll. I completed it utilizing the Kodai Saniro hanging string, and used resin jikusaki, that mimics the color pattern of real ivory.

I think this scroll turned out nicely.
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Dragon Sumi Painting by Mariusz Szmerdt

This is a dragon painted by Mariusz Szmerdt. I love this painting. His work is very beautiful and detailed. In mounting this I wanted to think about cloths that would be both symbolically significant and make the artwork standout. There is one phrase that I used from Chinese/Japanese folklore that is related to the dragon. Can you find the symbols in the cloths?

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