Second in a series? Tried to look a little more at the 'Shin Hanga' format, figure out where I might play with its rules a little. Since I'm neither Japanese nor a woodblock print maker, I figure there's no reason not to experiment. In this case, I thought to do Van Gogh. While he made a lot of self portraits, I decided to look for photos instead. As it turns out, there's only one, taken when he was likely a teenager. Using that as a base, I adapted the color palette from one of his later self portrait paintings. I think that Shin Hanga didn't always have black lines as the color on their key block but I don't know that they went so far afield. I'll have to look into it. While I sampled colors at the start, I don't think any of them stayed the ones I took from Van Gogh as there needed to be more of a balance. I think it's pretty successful and I could totally see doing a series of these. We'll see. I seem to be allergic to prolonged bouts of style.