I went to my wife's relatives party last Sunday.
There were lots of people there, so I drew them and I enjoyed it.
I did 7 portraits in about 2.5 hours.
I took a photo of stone wall of the former Edo Castle in winter time last year (2013).
I painted this sketch from it.
It was a very cold day, but the weather was beautifully fine.
Thank you so much for your support this year.
I wish you a happy New Year.
I painted some boys' and girls' portraits while I'm staying in the camping area.
My daughter found some friends and this girl is one of her play mates.
I enjoyed these quick sketch of the portraits, thanks everyone!
This is a sketch, the view from my camp spot.
This beautiful river is very close to the ocean, so it's a bit salty.
It was a lovely sunny day, and I tanned my skin a lot.
I went to Brunswick Heads for Camping with my family.
I stayed there for about 5 days and it was wonderful!
I painted quick sketches.
This sketch is the view from a kids play ground in the camp area.
I enjoyed the nice morning breeze while I was painting this tree.
This is also a drawing only by a ball point pen, compound of the Kumamoto Castle.
I've done a lot of miniature portraits, but I've never done a landscape with this style before.
It took me about 3 weeks to finish.
This is the first scene of the motion picture 'Paper Moon'.
The opening image of movies are symbolic, especially this one too.
I love this movie and the performance of little Tatum O'Neil is exquisite.
This is the Kumamoto Castle.
The castle keep is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle (1467?).
This is a quick sketch of my favorite stone bridge called "Tsujun Bridge".
Last year, on the 31st 2013, I saw this bridge on sight for the very first time.
Behind the story of building this bridge is so amazing. cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C5%ABjun_Bridge
You can also see the nice view from the bridge like my sketch below.
This is a little Inari Shrine in Myoken Shrine in Yatsushiro. Inari is the Japanese kami of foxes of agriculture and industry, of general prosperity and worldly success, and one of the principal kami of Shinto.