Blue Shadows on the Gable (Oil on Shikishi)

Ships from Japan.
Blue Shadows on the Gable is an original oil painting by Sébastien Coueffic, created on a traditional Japanese shikishi board (24 × 27 cm). Using expressive brushwork and bold color contrasts, the artist transforms an everyday rooftop into a dynamic play of form, shadow, and light. The vivid blue, pink, and red planes give the scene a cinematic clarity, evoking both the immediacy of urban sketching and the geometric lyricism of modernist painting.
 
This piece is part of Coueffic’s Architecture series for the Shikishi Art Project, where the artist reinterprets buildings through a distinctly personal lens—bridging European abstraction, Japanese formats, and references to artists like David Hockney or Charles Sheeler. Painted on a rigid gold-edged shikishi board, the work carries both the intimacy of a sketchbook and the presence of a finished artwork. A celebration of light, structure, and color in architectural form.