Leigh Memorial Church & a Pastor

#sadamikonchi Happy Easter! Enjoy a safe and long weekend. Once this kind #pastor allowed my #sketching. Anyone aged with life experiences look very lovely to my eyes. Their faces and body languages eloquently tell stories. This Leigh Memorial #Church in Parramatta is a significant historical #heritage. Victorian Free Gothic style. It's cold, a rainy day. Daylight saving will end on Sunday, April 5, at 3:00 am. Aww, autumn! P.S. I love drawing figures best, happy💖

#unitingchurch #congregation #assembly #parramatta #drawing #watercolour #pencil #graphite #leighmemorialchurch #unitingchurch #history #gothic #watercolour #pen #sydney #australia 
ハッピーイースター！安全, 無事故で長い週末を楽しんでね. この牧師さんが 心よく私の #スケッチ を許可してくれました. 人生経験を積んだ人は、私の目にはとても素敵に見えます。彼らの表情や身振り手振りは雄弁に彼らの 生きてきた物語を語ります. #パラマッタ にあるこの #リー記念教会 は、重要な歴史遺産に指定されています. ビクトリア朝フリーゴシック様式.
Btw, 涼しいを 通りこして, 肌寒い 雨の日に なります. 夏時間は4月5日(日)午前3時に終了. ああ、秋ね！P.S. やっぱり私は人を書くのが一番好きで 幸せです💖
#faith #preaching

Leigh Memorial Church & a Pastor

The beauty of the world is the beauty as you see it

The title is what my friend told me. Wow, that's so true, I feel. In my eyes, people are the most  beautiful subjects. Find out the beauty of a person and express it in work -- is my mission. In a technical aspect, a huge part of drawing ability is the ability to see a subject like I wrote in "Talent can be learned. The skills of "see" is to define relationships in a subject such as values, colours, perspective, proportions, volumes, shapes, edges and so on. Apart from physical relationships, a subject has a mood and a person has emotions, too. From them, I pick up one topic and focus on it. 
For example, a mood, the tenderness of an old pastor interested me most as well as colours, his white cloth and a stole. 

Drawing and painting skills are much like interpretation skills of the identified relationships in a subject. How can we interpret the picked up visual information by what? Methods is up to an individual's choice and decision such as medium and a style. We can try tens of thousands of different ways. 

Moreover, drawing skills are often equal to a painting ability/skill. So, I always keep up drawing. When I wonder how to paint a drawing, I always get back to black and white drawing like initial sketches. Then, I get on painting. 

It was nice to pop up a church service. I could have a rich meditation..., or simply a naughty girl?! I wish to depict any walks in ordinary people's ordinary lives. I want to draw people from all walks of life. It's up to our eyes to find beauty. 
Friends, Happy Painting! 

The beauty of the world is the beauty as you see it

Ongoing Picture Book Illustration

Hi, Friends, 
Good news has come! I can work on a bit "bigger" size to a real book size after consulting Windy Hollow Books and Editor Helen Chamberlin. I'm relieved. Finally, book dimension info has come to me today. 
Then, I've set the paper size for double spreads. A2 is good enough.

Once, the lecturers showed us their bigger original works (*They were pastel work on A2 for a tall book and other A2s were for landscape books). Their work surprised at us, students.

However, an original work size should depend on medium, an illustrator's taste and  how a book will be -- a tall book or a landscape? (I actually rang up the old teacher and got whys.)
My watercolour work will be a bit landscape book and nearly a square. So, it's not necessary to create a huge work for a single page. Also, it's important to keep a same ratio throughout the work.

OK, if so, Sadami will certainly have fun in making "roughs"! 

Thank you for warm cheers. 
Sadami's advenutre will continue.

Friends, have a wonderful week and 
Happy Painting!!
(*Ehum, I did not put colours in communion..., although, yes, a drawing is my prayer. I put colours in the studio ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ).  

      

Ongoing Picture Book Illustration