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Tag: Kitsuki
Painting of a beautiful Japanese river at dusk
In April of 2018, I visited a cafe that had a gift shop. The gifts were artworks by foreigners living in Japan. The owner, who was herself a foreigner, had asked me to show some of my paintings there. I was delighted by this opportunity. The shop is near Kitsuki town, which is a very…
I got a commission to paint a Japanese torii gate
In 2020, I did an exhibition at the main department store in my local city of Oita. It went well and I sold about 12 to 13 paintings. Nearly all of these were sales of paintings on display. However, I did get 2 commissions. And one of them is of this Japanese torii gate in…
Meeting a water rat while painting Kitsuki estuary
Today was “Marine Day”. It’s called “umi-no-hi” in Japanese and it’s a national holiday. And we, the family, even went to the beach and it was wonderful. But before we came to the beach we stopped the car on route and the family had a sleeping break. While they slept I got out of the…
A painting of two fishermen by a beautiful Japanese river
I think that I painted this river scene around 2013. It could have been even earlier. This place is called Kitsuki. It’s a small Japanese town by the sea with an interesting history and a few interesting old buildings. And it has some nice scenes to paint such as this beautiful river.