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Friday, July 16, 2010

STORMY FLORIDA SKY AND MYRTLE BLOSSOMS

Yesterday was July 15, 2010, and the Myrtle blossoms
looked impressively luminous against the dark, stormy sky.
Photo: Malgorzata Kawashima 

Friday, July 9, 2010

AFTERNOON AT SEA


"Afternoon at Sea"
 July 8, 2010; 12x9", watercolor & mixed media on paper
I had to edit this post, because I really started hating this painting; 
I have been color balancing this photo of it - trying to get the "real"
colors, and finally realized that it's just a sketch on old watercolor paper
 with yellowish/peachy tint. So I finally left it alone, but not before deleting the previous photo and replacing it with this one -- the original flash photo taken
 last night at the sight where this trouble maker seascape was completed.
I declare: seascapes are not easy subject to paint. The digital photo that this
troubled little watercolor sketch was made from is so beautiful. I am posting it at Cabbage Rules my Universe site.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Detail Number 2

Fritillaria Camschatcensis - Kuro Yuri - Black Lily of Kamchatka, 2010.  - my first ever miniature oil painting . Detail Number 2. Painted from a photo taken by me in Obihiro, Hokkaido - Japan in June 2008.