I sketched waves at Narrabeen in 41’ C. Strong winds broke
the wave heads. Btw, ah, heaven, a big and cool watermelon slice from an esky!
I love capturing the movement of waves and its colours. The beauty of life I
feel in nature and an ocean. Friends, let’s enjoy life and drawing!
We, Australians love gum trees or eucalyptus. We, participants required to work on white flowers in Yuko Nagayama's workshop. To find white gum tree flowers was not hard like white bottle brushes. So, here we go! A bit tricky and hard to depict it. Bees and birds enjoy honey.
Btw it's wonderful that Yuko's workshop has opened up my eyes and inspired my hands for flowers and still life! I've begun to enjoy background, too.
In the subjects, flowers in a glass cup, Yuko Nagayama taught us how to handle a background as well as the subject. The participants were required to submit white flowers. I chose our native flowers, bottle brushes. But it was a bit hard work to find the white bottle brushes.
Lovely, Yuko demonstrated the procedures and the any colours could be background that wiped off a narrow colour theoretical approach. Rather, she embraced emotions in an individual. Thank you very much, Yuko! You respect each participant and encourage us to be what we are. "You don't need to draw better (than others). Draw your own style and enjoy it!" I perfectly agree with her.
Now, I'd like to "enjoy" painting a background. I've got interest in still life or flowers for the first time in my life!
I look forward to the final session, a third one. Friends, Happy Painting!
People's choice has masked off the direction to go. Congrats to Joe Biden and USA! His daughter is a social worker that has impressed me much. I hope he will understand people's pain and advocate the disadvantage in a difficult time. We wish the very best to America's future.
Sean Connery dies, best known for his role of James Bond, 007 series in movies. Once, we discussed about the absence of a super idol or a cultural icon in sociology at uni. Sean could be one of the idols who symbolised time and embodied cultures. For the time is there is a changing. Btw, Scotland's national flower is a thistle.
An old couple has the beauty of life and marriage, I feel. They share ups and downs in lives to today. My setting is rain and a bus stop. In general, any old couple's caring tells me love and a “life long story.” The same is true of old people, too. So, I often ask them to be my models. I’d like to create picture books on an old couple in the future.
Technically, I enjoyed soft edges and wet in wet in this illustration. I'd explore watercolour more. Friends, Happy Watercolour and Illustration!
Friends, pandemic
is the chance to grow and try online workshops. Very happy to attend my admiring
world leading watercolourist Yuko Nagayama's course. An online workshop was my first experience. I want to grow. Her say most touched me
was, "Life! When life comes up in work, it’s a beauty.” Lovely. I'm learning from
A to Z. We studied about materials, how to draw such as the importance of observation, value study, colour mixture, colour use etc, etc in two hours.
I enjoyed painting apples after Zoom. Thank you very much, Yuko. She encourages me so much. Two more sessions to go! Happy, Happy Painting.
