Like "Japanese Street", it came from one of those children's colouring books you can buy in any art store, and which, back in the 1990s when my kids were growing up, we often spent rainy Sunday afternoons colouring in with felt pens or crayons.
Later I took the two I liked best, scanned them, enlarged them, and then produced them as paintings instead of colour-by-numbers - this one with the vague notion that it might provide an illustration for a tale I was writing about the two great lady poets of 9th century Japan, Sei Shōnagon and the Lady Murasaki.
I think the key to the success of this is less the two ladies than the particular shade of blue for the dress of the woman standing up, which is repeated in the frame: 78 parts red, 105 parts green, 141 parts blue, though that is of course meaningless, because it entirely depends on which red, blue and green you are using in the first place.
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