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  Below on September 28, I showed Stage 2 of this painting. Here is Stage 3. As I said back then, my intention in this painting is to bring back the connection between the plant and the “cosmos”. Pointillism is … Continue reading →

Below on September 26, I started over this painting. Here is its Stage 2. The work is in progress. My intention is to present the plant as something “radiant” — flowers that are quite common beside roads yet quite fabulous … Continue reading →

So, this is done. Unlike “St. Francis and Birds” (Click “Works – Spiritual” on the black menu above and scroll down), here the same saint looks a bit busy and disturbed. I wanted to present him looking at tragedies of … Continue reading →

Below on September 13, I showed the start of this painting. Here is Stage 2. The Greek origin of the word “cosmos” was κοσμοs, which meant “the world as something in ordered unity” — thus, it was the etymological origin … Continue reading →

Below on September 20, I showed a failure in my presentation of “Lycoris radiata”. I started the work over, and here is how it began. My intention is still the same as I said further below on September 11: to … Continue reading →

So, as I confirmed below on September 22, 20 minutes are too short for pointillism, even if the paper size is very small. I thought about this issue and came up with a possible solution — I’ll try painting large … Continue reading →

(Click to enlarge / 画像をクリックすれば、拡大します） . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I joined in another croquis session today — as usual, 20 minutes x 6 poses. Today, I experimented … Continue reading →

This is a failure! I wanted to treat Lycoris radiata as “something burning and radiant”, as I said below on September 11. So I tried to turn the flowers into flames, but I don’t like the result shown here. Now, … Continue reading →

So, this portrait of the saint is still in progress. Allow me to skip Stage 6, and here is Stage 7. I wanted to present the saint facing many tragedies of our world and is about to speak up. Speak, … Continue reading →

Today, September 16, I joined a drawing session. Unlike my croquis sessions, today we worked on the same model’s same pose for 120 minutes. The model carried a pure, untainted yet friendly atmosphere (not “angelic but inaccessible”), so I tried … Continue reading →