Happy New Year!

I heartily hope 2018 will be a wonderful year for all my blogger friends and visitors. Thank you very much for your support. Please guide me and lead me this year, too =  今年もよろしくおねがい致します。

We enjoyed watching the fire works in a dear friend's open house.
Happy Painting! Best wishes, Sadami 

Happy New Year!

Call For Victoria Cancer Council Art Awards 2012

Yahoo! Friends, how are you?
The right hand gets better! Thank you for warm cheers.Now, Victoria Cancer Council calls for Art Awards for Entry.
The theme is "Strength."Digital entry. Art work from overseas is OK.

Entries close : 5pm, 27 April 2012
Entry fee: $10 per entry. No entry fee for entrants 18 years and under and Indigenous artists.
*The mark and the link is the courtesy of Victoria Cancer Council.

I have the same treatment like people with cancer and leukemia.Sometimes, cancer patients and I have a chat over life. Nothing different between cancer patients and me.
The point is how to live this life fully.
I'd spend time in creating something rather than complain about the disability in the leg. I'm a practical realist.
The below is my favorite prayer.

Lord, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and
wisdom to know the difference.

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (American theologist)

Also, experiences have taught me that self-trust and confidence makes an optimistic attitude or keep up hope. Sometimes, the weak leg makes me sad, as I work hard on exercises that do not improve it. But I do not worry. People call me "Very positive."
Well, I've learned...

When life gives me lemons...

I make lemonade!

Nice!!

Hahahaha, a good sense of humour makes our world happy.

BTW, I'm seeking different approachs in watercolour not to get stuck in mannerism!I really enjoyed this sketch. Especially, this baby's eyes and the face caught me. Ah, life!! Full of life!!
But I'd remake it with a background or with a different approach. Sadami, fearless! Try "new."

Thank you for kind regards. Have a wonderful day.
Take Care and Happy Painting!!

Call For Victoria Cancer Council Art Awards 2012

Sketching on Train : Face faces Face

I always sketch people in a train. A museum of faces. It's a great awe that each of us has a different life and a different direction to go. Only for a while, we share time and separate for an individual destination...

Face expressions are very different. Body language, too. They stimulate my imagination. I imagine each person's life. Does this young man have a very long day? Where is that happy child going to go? The gentleman looks so sad, had a tough day? The woman might be on the way to see her love... These girls are having a cheerful chat.
The imagination makes me smile and I feel all of us closer.

Indeed, soon, most people talk to me. We become friends at once. Drawing brings strangers into nice chat friends. People love my sketches and begin to tell me their life stories. It's lovely that art opens anyone's heart to an artist.

Also, I'd like to add this fact that many people are so kind to me with a walking stick. I'm not good at balancing and sometimes I walk wabble wobble. In a peak hour, people happily give me a seat. I still recall the old gentleman who helped me walk safely on a long stair way out of a station.

I was so afraid of Central Station at the onset of the disability. The Station is too huge, a very long way to walk to platforms and lots of stair ways. Even though there are lifts, to reach at there is a challenging for people with disability. Nearly crying alone in a long underground pass way, I managed to walk to a platform. So, I'll never forget that gentleman and other nice people.

Only for a while, we share time and separate for an individual destination... A Japanese tea ceremony has beautiful philosophy in these words, " IchigoIchie, 一期一会," my favorite say. It means we only once meet each other in life, so do our best to host a guest at a tea ceremony. Looking at these so many people, I feel we may not see again. Our encounter is only for a moment like a comet in this big universe. Our meeting each other is a miracle. If so...

My ichigoichie. I'd assist anyone who needs help for a walk in a busy station and at anywhere. I'd promise to make people happy with my sketches in our encounter.

Sketching on Train : Face faces Face