Wishing you a warm and wonderful holiday season!Title: Mr. Santa, Size:8x10, Oil on Linen.
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タイトル: ミスターサンタ、サイズ: 8x10インチ
I received the Hannibal DeBellis & Richman Sculpture Award - 125th Annual Members' Exhibition, Salmagundi Club last week. The sculpture "Aran" sat on the TV cabinet a long time. I've not submitted it to any exhibitions. I'm honored to receive this award, and I think Aran must be proud as well.
I finished painting,"Lemon". I didn't have time to paint for a few months. Click here and you can see how I started painting.
The photos are when I was receiving the CLWAC Medal of Honor from 112th Annual Juried Exhibition Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club at National Arts Club in October 15th and my Sculpture and myself. I was so happy to receive it.
contemplative gaze is intended to suggests wisdom and inner strength.
I attended the Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball and the opening reception celebrating John Milton's
400th birthday at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, September 27th. There was dance performances, live music with swing band and singer, and more. I really enjoyed everything as I've never attended this kind of the ball. I'm showing some pictures here. My sculpture, titled "Demon", is in the exhibition. It's a great show. Don't miss it! It'll be until November 2nd
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スングバンドの演奏でシンガーが歌って、沢山の人が踊ったりと本当に楽しい賑やかなレセプションでした。写真はその時の様子です。この展覧会は11月2日まで開催。展示会の詳細
私の抽象画がゴールドブラシ賞を受賞しました。私のダンシング・クレイン, が入選した事,そして,賞を受賞してとっても嬉しいです。来てくれた皆様ありがとうございました。写真はレセプションの様子です。
I've been working on this etching since July 1st. Finally I'm printing out a limited edition now. I printed about 18 prints so far but I'm not satisfied with some of them. Printing by hand is not like a copy machine. It's difficult to make the same print every time. So I'll make more prints.
Aran is my friend of mine. His appearance is like Three Musketeers. I wanted to make his sculpture. So I asked him to sit for me about four years ago. At that time, I promised him create a copy. I made the busts with two different patina. A dark one is for him. Finally he picked it up last night. He changed his hair style but it's the same mustache. I took a souvenir picture for him with his busts.
I had a reception of the Annual Black and White Exhibition at Salmgundi Club last Thursday. I had two lithographs that were accepted.
I didn't finish the painting that is Wedgwood teacup's one. I want to take a rest for my eyes. And I'll continue to paint it soon. I was planning not to do anything today but I started painting a new still life painting. I made a simple set up in this time. I really need take a break.
I'm always paint with natural light. I've started painting from late afternoon to evening for a few days. It was getting dark outside so that the painting became darker.
This painting is a still life arrangement featuring fruit (an orange, a lemon, red grapes, green grapes)and red wine. The tablecloth in the painting was originally an antique kimono belt, which is called "obi" in Japanese. I came across this obi at an antique store in Japan and the design of the pattern caught my eye.
I got some fruit in this morning and set up still life since then. I started painting around two o'clock. It takes time to set up for decided composition and color.
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I spent a few nights researching Einstein's quotes. He left a lot of funny and good ones. There is a limited space to write the quotes on the plate. I picked some of them and wrote backwards. It's difficult to choose them but I enjoyed doing it.
I'm still working on the etching plate. Fixing it and printing out these process are over and over again. It takes time to finish fixing and making editions. In the meantime, I started drawing on Einstein's portrait the lithograph plate.
Well...the dark tone and the shadow of the scissors look okay but I'm not satisfy with the gradation on the table. I'm going to fix on the plate.
This is the plate I drew for making gradation. I took a photo before soaking it into acid tank. The dark part of drawing is not going to bite. It reverses the image and tones. I can post some test print soon...
The idea came in May. You can see the photos on the blog May 19th.
It seems some parts of the painting worked a little too much. But I think it needs more work.
I used another my lithograph (bottom picture, title: Central Park) to paint. 
I finished this painting. During working on it, I was wondering what is the difference between mixed media and collage. Is this collage? I researched them and I found that my painting is mixed media because I used paint (Acrylic and oil) and lithograph(ink) on the canvas.
It was the reception of Merit Scholarship Winners Exhibition (The exhibition of work by winners of the Art Students League's 2007 merit scholarship competition) last night. My old friends came and congratulated me on the exhibition and receiving the Award that I also won The Michael Ponce de Leon Printmaking Award the same time. I had not seen some of them for four or five years. So I was very happy to see them.
It's a kind of recycle!? I have a lot of the proof papers for lithography. I used them to make a mixed media yesterday. It's not finished yet. The bottom photo is a working progress. The size is 12"x12".
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Maybe it looks nice to painting too I guess. It's a new type of still life. |
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