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90 minutes with a ball-point pen / ボールペンと90分

On June 24th, I joined a different drawing session — 120 minutes of the same model and pose. Actually, I made two drawings in the 2 hours — 90 minutes and 15 minutes. The remaining 15 minutes, I spent as … Continue reading →

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“Madonna and the Child”, Stage 5 / ステージ5

Here is Stage 5 of the “tender, gentle oil pastel” attempt — Stage 4 is shown below on June 25. Not much difference, right? Well, please notice the background ultramarine is deeper now, even in this scanned image. I think … Continue reading →

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The dyed T-shirt on a torso / 下の染めたTシャツ、トルソーに着せてみた

I have put the dyed T-shirt of June 18th below on a torso — Hope you like it. As I write on the “Painting on clothes” page of this website (Just click it in the black menu above.) , I … Continue reading →

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Another 20-min croquis / 20分クロッキー、もういっちょ

Another 20-min croquis from June 17 — This time with felt-tip markers. 20-min croquis Felt-tip marker on paper Not for sale — just a croquis 6月17日のクロッキー会から、20分クロッキーをもう1つ 今度は、マーカーによるもの 20分クロッキー 紙にマーカー 非売品 ・・ 単なるクロッキーです  

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“Madonna and the Child”, Stage 4 / ステージ4

Stage 2 is shown below on June 8. Here, allow me to skip Stage 3 and present to you Stage 4 of this oil pastel painting. “Madonna and the Child”, Stage 4 Oil pastel on paper Work still in progress ステージ2は、下の6月8日にお見せしました。 … Continue reading →

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De Kooning in 20 minutes?? / 20分でデ クーニング スタイル??

I joined in another croquis session on June 17th, as usual 20 minutes x 6 poses. Here is one from the six. I had with me some “powder pastel” then, so I rubbed the powders onto my fingertips, and painted … Continue reading →

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“St. Citizen” way back from 1991 / “St. Citizen”、1991年の作品

There are some “social issue” works not shown in the “Social issues” page of this website. (Just click “Social issues” in the black menu above.) This one is way back from 1991 — a “citizen” is “beautified” in a way, … Continue reading →

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So, the dyed T-shirt — / というわけで、染め終わったTシャツ

So, here is the T-shirt whose dyeing is done! “Simply dyed” — Its precious stage was shown below on June 5. I’ll show you how the shirt looks on a torso later. “Simply dyed” T-shirt, done Plain white T-shirt dyed … Continue reading →

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“Under pressure” of ball-point pens / ボールペンのプレッシャーの下で

Another 20-min croquis from May 20th —- Coarseness of ball-point pens’ lines can create the sense of “violent pressure”, if such lines come en masse. You see, if you assembled very smooth, lovely, regular curves in a similar way, they wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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“Too much” of “More Justice” ? / 「正義の行き過ぎ」という行き過ぎ??

Hey, I’m not a kind of an artist that creates “lovely things only” — I do work on some social issues too. This piece was meant to illustrate a certain website way back in 2003. The website’s owner turned it … Continue reading →

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