27/06/2007 Wednesday

Colonial house in Nairobi

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Getting back to the old days... this is one of my first OP paintings. I started oil pastels in Kenya because I couldn't carry oil painting tools from Japan. This house is the office building I worked for, and partly the accommodation as well —I lived there around a year in this house.
I used only very cheap hard oil pastels on the pencil draft. Oh, the way I paint has changed a lot. I cannot get back to the way I did like this... now I am used to use soft oil pastels like Senneliers and Holbeins. This work was painted on the 21st of April, 2002.
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22/02/2007 Thursday

Savanna

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Back in the old days again...
This is also the work I painted when I lived in Kenya. I was on safari to Naivasha and killed time painting this landscape till the dinner. It was the 10th September, 2002.
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21/02/2007 Wednesday

Twilight

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One of the oldest OP works of mine. You may see this in the header area of this weblog. I started oil pastels instead of oil painting because I couldn't carry pinting tools to Kenya. It was 2002.
The silhouetted tree is jacaranda in the compound of where I lived in Westlands, Nairobi. I painted the colors of twilight sky with water-soluble crayons and oil pastels first, and then captured the jacaranda tree with inks on it. I painted this on the 13th of July, 2002.
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08/02/2007 Thursday

Mountain stream

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Landscape in Oku-Mikawa Highlands, Aichi, Japan. I went there to pan gold late summer last year but I painted... The date I painted this is the 2nd September, 2006.
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12/12/2006 Tuesday

Sunset in western Kenya #2

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I painted the sunset again. This is from the hotel room in Kisumu. I waited for the sunset sketching the building but the direct sunlight was too bright. Dazzling. It was hard to choose the right colors.
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07/12/2006 Thursday

Sunset in Western Kenya

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I'm in Kisumu, Kenya. I can access the net to upload my works using wireless network. Amazing. What a 21st century technology.
Kisumu, where is located beside the Lake Victoria, is famous for its beutiful sunset. Of course I agree. I tried to paint the sunset here. It's so hard. Far from the exact sunset.
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17/08/2006 Thursday

Riverside

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This riverside scenery is located in Gujo-Hachiman, Gifu prefecture, Central Japan. The river is Nagara-gawa (the river Nagara). I have visited there 2 weeks ago for a preliminary check of a field seminar. I have taken some pictures there and I painted this referring them. This work will be used in a poster when putting out a call for the seminar. What kind of seminar? Geology. This is my current occupation. I finished this on the 14th of August, 2006.
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22/06/2006 Thursday

Mt. Longonot

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Mt. Longonot (2777 m a.s.l.) is a volcano which is located at the bottom of Gregory Rift, Central Kenya. I really liked driving down to the graben bottom thru the escarpment when I lived in Nairobi.
I drew this on the 27th of October, 2002 on the way to Naivasha from Nairobi. Masai boys came to see my drawings then.
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