Back home!

After for 2 months staying in Japan, finally I made home.

The air in Squamish is so nice and no crucial high heat! Osaka is the worst place to stay in summer. I was raised in Osaka and I thought I could still deal with the hot summer. But I'm used to this Squamish "temperature" for 8 years. No way to go back over 35C + high humidity !!!

Started painting a couple days ago, but not specific images are coming out yet. Just try to move my painting brushes back and forth on a canvas until "something" coming up to my HEAD.

I DID IT!

It's been almost 5 months since I first started this "purplish pink " sunset.
Once I ended up "Orange" sunset which is displayed at Portico Gallery now.

But I couldn't give up to paint purplish pink clouds in the dark blue sky. I kept challenging it and stopped a little while and painting again and even ruined 2 canvases.

Then, finally I finished painting it today except putting varnish on after it dries. I son't want to say this is the exactly I wanted to paint, but 85%, I feel comfortable with it.

Now I'm ready to swich my mind to going to Japan at the end of this month and staying there almost for 2 months.

9th painting has done!

I'm still working pretty hard on painting every day and 9 paintings have done so far in this year. And this is only in the middle of April.

I'm working on the 10th one now and possibly will start one more before going to Japan at the end of May for 2 months.

The one I'm working on is another sunset scene and it suppose to be finished a long time ago. But I wasn't satisfied the colour of it. I've repainted it over 10 times and even gave up to continue to paint 3 times.

I think I finally figured out how to make the "purplish pink" clouds in the dark blue sky which I really wanted to paint, I guess. But takes a little while to finish it.

The 7th painting...

I've just finished the 7th painting of this year a couple days before. I don't know why I'm still in really "painting mode" so far.

When I painted " Undergrowth", I didn't think it ended up very different than my ordinary works. And I quite like it. After that I'm trying to paint something
different but it's not so easy to change my style even I want to.

Practice makes perfect. Practice and practice and practice.....

More than ever...

I've been painting more than ever in my life for last 3 months. And the result is I've finished 6 paintings including the largest one and the smallest one.

I've tried to concentrate more where the"light" comes from, which I've been ignoring or haven't been paying enough attention before. I think some part,not all of them, looks better because of it.

All these paintings are not ordinary landscape I painted before,either. Those are much closer look of trees and bushes.

One of them is a sunset from my balcony, but I had to confess I enhenced the orange sky a lot. And I only saw such a great sunset only twice within last 7 years.

I'm going to start another new painting tomorrow.

Painting painting painting....

One more painting has done. This is another "GREEN" painting.

I finished "Undergrowth" last month, which is an image of standing in the middle of the trail. And I painted another one, my good friend, Margreet took me for a walk with her last month and I took many pictures during walking.

Some trees are falling down and making arch. That makes me very interesting and covered with moss looks very beautiful.

This time,I concentrated more than before where the light comes from. I often forget to pay attention to the light. I hope it looks all right.

A hint of painting

Going for a walk for over an hour every day, but not in the rain, is my "routine".

A couple of weeks ago, it was just gorgeous day and I happened to see a flock of birds singing in the tree. They looked so happy and enjoying wonderful warm weather.

It turned out a small but the newest painting.