"The Door"

When I started painting " Radiant Light", all the sudden, this image of red door came up to my mind. This is one page of  my old old memories.

I saw this building with red door somewhere in Europe, possibly either France or Italy.  I was so impressed and loved this red door when I found, I even painted this whole building over 30 years ago. But I don't know where the painting is now.

The door was shut tight but telling me something that I thought. And this rusty heavy looking red door was so beautiful with pinkish brick building.

Starting to paint again!

After 2 months of BREAK, I've been painting for 3 weeks. And here it is, my new version of trees and light painting has done. 

Light is always very difficult for me to show in the paintings. Actually it has no colour and texture but really affect painting if I can't use it right. Well, I'm not good at putting the light in my paintings yet. But I'm trying anyway. Hope I could do this better than before.

Little break?

I'm going back to Japan for 2 month and leaving tomorrow.

Since I've finished painting " Blanket of Snow", I decided not to start a new painting until  I come back from Japan.

If I have any painting half done, that makes me feel something is not right or missing. I'm not the person I can do several things together. I can only do one thing at a time.

So I now have a little break for painting pictures.

Snow....

I've been waiting for taking nice picture of snow scene around here since last year. But we haven't had enough snow.

Maybe enough through the night but when I get up in the morning and ready to go..... always half melt or start raining and doesn't look beautiful anymore.

So, I decided to paint the first LITTLE snow we had in this year before having "ENOUGH SNOW".

Add a bright colour

Once in a while, I feel like adding much more bright colour in my painting rather than only
" blue and green".  Here they are vivid orange.

I always see this tree in my neighbours when I go for a walk.  I haven't notice it becomes such a beautiful colour in the fall. Because most of the fall I wasn't here but in Japan.

I was lucky enough being here to see all the beautiful colours in Squamish in the fall.

I was going to paint only one painting but made two. One has a little bit more leaves than the other. Well, it happened accidentally, anyway.

Cascade

When I saw some kind of ivy flowing down on the tree, I was so impressed how beautiful they are.
But "painting those ivy" is totally different story. How can I paint so many leaves? And can I make it like flowing down tree? Well. let's try.

I started this scene at the end of September, 2012. Then, of course, I demolished 2 canvases. Finally the third canvas survived and I think I finished painting and titled "Cascade".  I've already had a title before I started this painting.

Yes, this is the first painting I finished in 2013! 

Looking up the sky

I thought there were quite many artists submitted to the street banner competition. But turned out only 7 submissions by the artists plus 13 elementary school students. And I wasn't even chosen top 3, either.

 I found the winner's design in the newspaper and I think it's far better than mine. So I was able to accept I wasn't the winner without upsetting. 

After the EXCITING(?) street banner competition, I felt a little empty and didn't know what to paint.  But one day, I was walking my every day route in the nice day and just looked up the sky. Here, there was a blue sky and beautiful clouds and shadow of the dry trees.

I went home and took out one of the "demolished" canvases. Demolished means I often put the solid colour of paint all over the canvas in the middle of the painting when I feel this painting will never get better or something so wrong. And hide it under the bed. I always keep some of those canvases under the bed. And I don't feel like using a new canvas, I take it out and start painting on it pretending this is a "coloured" new canvas.

Took me 3 weeks to paint this "LOOKING UP"painting.