03/08/2009 Monday
Hat
I'm flying to Damascus via Dubai from Osaka right now with this hat on. =|B-) I'm staying in Syria for a couple of weeks and I hope I can sketch things during my stay. This hat was sketched on the 31st of July, 2009.
I'm flying to Damascus via Dubai from Osaka right now with this hat on. =|B-) I'm staying in Syria for a couple of weeks and I hope I can sketch things during my stay. This hat was sketched on the 31st of July, 2009.
20/03/2009 Friday
Stainless-steel cup with a self portrait
This is a stainless steel cup. I put this on a table to draw then you may find me somewhere in the reflected image on the surface. Sketched on the 7th of March, 2009.
28/01/2009 Wednesday
Ready to paint?
Sorry for the long silence since I last updated this blog last month. I sketched my son's hand while he was asleep together with a single oil pastel stick of Sennelier on the 30th of November, 2008. At this time, he was 10 months old and he has just became 1 year old last week.
Now, let me introduce a good article at emptyeasel.com titled "Oil Pastels 101: A Comprehensive Guide to Painting with Oil Pastel". This article about oil pastels was written by Robert Sloan, American oil pastel artist/writer. Comprehensive knowledge about this fine art medium is intelligibly explained. My painting of three green apples is shown in this article. Thank you, Robert. Thank you, editors. Thank you, visitors.
17/04/2008 Thursday
Horse skeleton
I sketched a skeletal preparation of a horse as a study for oil painting on the 8th of April, 2008. I separately sketched the left and right parts of the specimen on the separate black papers. The oil painting work will be expanded and printed as a part of the 8 meter wide display board at the entrance hall of the university museum. The original work will be exhibited inside. The original painting and the entrance display are going to be shown at the renewal day of the Nagoya University Museum on the 30th of May, 2008.
This is a Japanese local type (Kiso) of a common horse, Equus caballus. This individual named "Dai-san Haruyama-go" was the final thoroughbred of this local type (not a Thoroughbred... :) )and lived during the years since 1952 to 1975. The specimen shows the type's physical peculiarity.
03/03/2008 Monday
Horn bottle opener
I used this bottle opener to open Tusker bottles when I was in Nairobi. The handle is made of a horn of a cow as you can see. I now still use this opener back in Japan. Sketched on the 28th of February, 2008.
26/01/2008 Saturday
Syrian soap
Back to the Syrian days... There were many soaps like this. All of these are the products from Aleppo. Sketched this on the 17th November, 2007.
15/01/2008 Tuesday
Kagami-mochi and little rats
Happy New Year, visitors! Sorry for my long silence here. I am okay. This is Kagami-mochi, rice cake decoration for Japanese New Year and little rat figures made by my wife. 2008 is the year of a rat. :)
04/11/2007 Sunday
Watch
I'm travelling to Syria from today (unfortunatelly, not for holidays...). I hope I can upload some from there... this is a watch with arabic signs on its dial plate. It says "Japan Arabic Calligraphy Association". yes, I'm a member of this association. :)
12/10/2007 Friday
Knitting wool
My wife has started knitting though she's on a practicing stage. I sketched the wool on the 1st of October, 2007.