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Here is just another 20-minute croquis in wax pastel with the background added in another 20 minutes later in oil pastel. This time, I painted the model rather “quick and coarse”, to make it fit in the “quick” background of oil pastel. … Continue reading →

So, here is Stage 4. I think this is getting close to the finish. “Hydrangea Phantasia II” Soft pastel on smooth-surface paper Close to the finish こちらが、ステージ4です。 完成に近づいてきたように思います。 “Hydrangea Phantasia II” スムーズな表面の紙にソフトパステル 完成に近づいてきました  

Shown here is another 20-minute croquis of a well-ahem-chubby model. Here, the whole thing is done with wax pastel (crayon). I did the model during the 20 croquis minutes and then, later, added the wax background in 5 minutes or … Continue reading →

Way below on July 25, I uploaded Stage 2 of this soft pastel painting. The work stagnated because I wasn’t sure which way I should move on in this automatistic painting. My imagination brought up some different images to go … Continue reading →

On September 24, I joined another croquis session — as usual, 20 minutes x 6 poses. Now, we had a new female model, who was — ahem! — very chubby, if I may. Yet she gave me a bunch of … Continue reading →

So, this painting, which is meant to take advantage of “coarse and rough” lines of “crayon” in order to depict a “rough” phenomenon in our society, is done at long last. “Excommunicated II” “Crayola(R)” and color pencil on paper 319mm … Continue reading →

Way below on July 21, I said this automatism painting of soft pastel, “Where Horizons Meet” should be done “soon”. I was not joking then. Actually, the painting was done around the end of July 2018, but I have had so … Continue reading →

Here is a fifth and the last one of the five sketches for the no-nuke poster. This was inspired by an angel drawn by Paul Klee, and I drew similar angels on my own T-shirts as well. Somehow related to … Continue reading →

Just below on September 20, I showed a third sketch for this no-nuke poster. Here is a fourth. I think this is the most “common and familiar” one — the dove with an olive branch right after Noah’s Deluge. (Genesis … Continue reading →

Below, on September 14, I showed two sketches for a NO-Nuke poster to be published by the Anglican Church. Then I said I would create three more sketches. Here is one of the three. Honestly, I myself am indetermined as … Continue reading →