Kinuko Nagae-Exhibition of a wonderful friend

Please let me announce the exhibition of a brilliant artist and wonderful friend:

Kinuko Nagae (永江絹子)

If you have the chance, visit her exhibition at the Gallery "Ruhe"

And please check out more of her beautiful art at:

http://www.kinuko.jp/

Higedaruma at Fukuoka

one of the most lovely and delicious Izakaya in Fukuoka is definetelly the "Higedaruma" in Meinohama (ひげだるま). It has a wonderful atmosphere and always the best seasonal fish and vegetables.

This was the starter, which is always serverd with beer...

Sanma-sashimi...

fried Oyster...

eel Tenpura...

*YUMMY*

New works

Finally back to my brushes and canvas I was able to do 3 paintings (German landscapes this time).

Here where the Sasanqua are blooming at the moment and the trees are full of Oranges it's quite difficult to get into Autumn-mood. So I tried to get that feeling through my paintings.

The one above are some churchtowers in Wuerzburg.

It's Acrylic and airbrush on Canvas (size is about 15x17 cm)

Original is available.

This is a typical German Autumn landscape, which came to my mind...

Acrylics and Airbrush on canvas.

Size is 17x15cm

Original available.

And here is a landscape from the Rhoen-mountains.

Acrylics, watercolor, ink and airbrush on paper.

Size is about 25x35cm

Original available.

Have a wonderful Autumn !!!

Autumn walk at nijo

This weekend we went to Nijo (二丈), a small town near Nanayama, with a beautiful valley.

This is the view from Ringobashi (Applebridge/りんご橋)...

and here you can already see the sasanqua-flowers. It's what I love here so much. Even in Winter, you can see flowers blooming...

This is typical Japanese country side. I hope and pray that people find a way to preserve it... those old farms and villages are the CORE of Japan. 

Later, since the weather was nice, we decided to drive up to Kagami-yama and enjoy the view over Karatsu.

In the evening we went to a wonderful Italian restaurant (da Ciruzzo) in Imajuku.

The food is delicious and the service excellent. We will definettely come again.

This are some antipasti.

Quattro formaggi pizza...

... and deer carpaccio. YUMMY !!!

Finally mushrooms

After all the wonderful exhibitions and the kids' music festival in school,

we decided to take a break and drove into the woods for a mushroom hunt.

To our surprise, the forest was FULL of shrooms. We found masses of "Numeriiguchi"

(suillus luteus)...

Hatsutake (lactarius hatsudake)...

AND, the biggest surprise were 2 Matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake). Tsuyoshi almost stumbled over them and could not believe his own eyes. It was the first time we found some...

Here you see a close up of them. We had them with clear Japanese soup and they were delicious !!!

And here is the rest of the hunt. The green color comes from the Hatsutake. They turn green after you cut them. Actually, I wanted to take pictures of our mushroom dinner, but everybody was so hungry, that I had no chance ^^". Well, if the weather is good, we will be off to the woods next weekend again. 

"10. couleur exposition" photos

Yesterday, I had a wonderful day at the gallery Tokunaga at the first day of our group-exhibition.

I could only stay until 3 p.m but already many people came to see the show.

Here are some photos...