I’ve done lots of detailed artwork in the past but never like this. It was my first time creating a miniature. It’s a partial copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (1831).
I used a slice of oak branch that I sourced myself from a small dead branch off a local tree. Note the star in the centre of the wood and the natural ray-like lines in the wood around it. I didn’t want to hide these details so did not paint the sky, but instead left the wood behind visible.
