more Autumn art...

Another painting I did back in 2008.

I love those old temples, shrines and gardens in Japan.

Done with Acrylics, watercolor, airbrush and pens on paper...

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Autumn at Onuma

Did not do much painting this week, because last week I was in Tokyo to get a new passport. I had a great time with all my friends there and I also went shopping and bought some new colors and books. When I came back I did a lot of cleaning and sorting out stuff and I can't wait to paint again.
Here are 2 old paintings. Both are in a private collections...

Mushroom-hunt

Here are some pictures of our mushroom-hunt.
We drove near Onuma and encountered masses of Amanita muscarina at frist. Those are poisenous, but beautiful.

Close to that spot we luckily found some Birch Boletus (Leccinum Scabrum) *yummy*

and going more deep into the forest, we got Suillus grevillei. Highly competitive in Hokkaido. It tastes wonderful with Miso-soup.

Last but not least, we got some Pholiota aurivella. Here people also eat it with soup, but in Germany nobody picks it. I ate it for the very first time today and it was delicious.

At the end, we went to a waterfall near Mori and it was a very beautiful scenery. I want to go there next Summer again and enjoy the cool air.

Autumn is coming...

Just want to share some fotos from out hike last Wednesday.

The Gentian-blossom at the mountains is

almost over...

We hiked up to Eboshidake and had a wonderful view of

Komagatake and even Yote-san.

Sunrise

Yesterday I was fascinated by the colors of the evening sky. Actually I wanted to paint a sunset, but I had another idea. I will do 2 paintings one called "Sunrise" and one "Moonrise", so here is the first one... "Sunrise".

Done with acrylics, ink, watercolor and airbrush on paper. Format is B4

Original will be available, when the 2 paintings are done.

Mushroom art part 2

This is for Nakamura-san. I hope you have a great mushroom-hunt today in Hakodate. There are maybe some Akahatsu, even Hanaiguchi out now. Good luck !!!

Here are some more mushroom paintings from the exhibition... my fave one is Tamagotake, which I posted in my Blog before.

I also

like Birch Boletus (Birkenpilz in German),

which tastes delicious with Salmon-creampasta...

and

Noboryudake

(Herbstlorchel). It may look weird, but it tastes great with Vongole Bianco.

All paintings are done with acrylics, watercolor, pens and airbrush on paper... Format B4 originals available.

Mushroom art

We did not have much rain in the last days, so there is still not the right time for mushrooms. But I decided to upload some of the mushroom paintings I did for the science-festival in August.
Done with acrylics, watercolor, airbrush and pens on paper.
Format is B4, originals are available.

Hiking at Esan 恵山

Today, the weather was very clear and so we decided to hike to the top of Esan, which is a still active Volcano near Hakodate. It was a 6km hike (all in all), but totally worth it. The sight was amazing. When we reached the top, we could see Aomori on one side and Yote-san and Muroran on the other side. I'm especailly proud of my kids, that they climbed the whole path without complaining and enjoyed the sight and nature the same way, we did.

Silver week

"Silver week" has started over here and we decided to drive to our fave beach and do some fishing. Unfortunately, we had no luck at all... some small Fugu stole all of our bait, but the kids enjoyed to play in the sand.

So we decided to drive in the mountains for some mushrooms and maybe Elderberries, but no luck as well... we only spotted a beautiful, but also the most deadly plant, there is, "Torikabuto"

 

Well, since we did not catch anything I decided to take matters into my own hands and we went to

the farmers and bought some

delicious and fresh vegetables.

Just could not resist to cook some tasty dishes for my loved ones... tomorrow we will take revenge and go for the fish again :D

Tsukimi

I love Japanese Autumn... and so I painted this to capture the mood of it... done with watercolor, airbrush, marker/pens and white ink on paper... Format is B4 Original available.

Will go fishing and maybe mushroom- and berry- picking with my family this weekend and during the holidays. Can't wait !!! ^__^

Grapes

Today I finished a series I was working on for 9 months now. Autumn will arrive soon and I was in the mood for painting grapes and wine.

All 3 paintings are done with acrylics, airbrush, pens and watercolor on paper... Format is DIN-A 3. All 3 originals are available.

Exhibition in Germany

Today the Japanese/Korean exhibition in Germany (Wiesbaden and Hofheim) will start. Unfortunatelly I can not go there personally, but I will take part with one painting. For further information, please click on this picture

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Here is the painting I sent there.

I called it "Rebirth". After my Mom died, I felt very sad, but she always encouraged me to paint and so I feel her spirit lives on in my art. Also painting after the loss helped me a lot to overcome my sadness and pain.

Hiking at the mountains

Today we went hiking in the mountains near Hakodate. The view was beautiful and there is still some Gentian up there.

On our way back we picked a lot of Cranberries (Kokemomo). Later I will make jam and cook a traditional German dinner with it.

Bamboo 4

I repainted the Bamboo-picture this week, because I felt, I can add more details by using watercolor and pens together with acrylics. I also added some more light effects with airbrush.
It was quite hard, but now I'm finally pleased with the result.

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Himawari

I wanted to paint some Himawari (Sunflowers) I saw during our vacation back in August. I used a foto as a reference, but I played with the colors and painted a much more "autumnlike" and "soft" sky.

Done with acrylics, watercolor and airbrush on paper... format is B4, original available.

Still catching up

Actually I wanted to paint a lot this week, but I'm still catching up with other things... Soon I will take part in an exhibition in Germany, not personally though, but I will submit a painting there. Since it is close to my hometown, I'm busy telling all my friends and relatives who live close about it. I will also write about it in my blog later.

In the meantime I will upload some old art from 2008 here.

Pictures 1 (dragonfly) and 2 (momiji3) are available, picture 3 ("Autumnleaves2") is sold.

Busy with painting again

The exhibition is over and I want to thank everybody again for their help, support and feedback. I'm still overwhelmed by all what happened.

Here are the photos of the science-cafe event.

Since yesterday I'm back painting and I have lots of ideas now (old and new), which I want to paint in the following weeks.

Autmn is coming and I can't wait to see the beautiful Momiji over here

. I just finished another painting of Bamboo.

I had this in my mind since my travel to Nagoya, Ise and Kyoto and now I finally had the time to finish it. Done with Acrylics and Airbrush on paper... Format is A3, original available...

I did it

Yesterday (japanese time) was my speech at the science-cafe in Hakodate. I was very nervous, because I never held a "lecture" infront of people, but it all went well and the guests, who came to hear it were great and encouraging. It was fun and I enjoyed it very much !!!

Also my husband did such a wonderful job, translating everything so perfectly into Japanese. I would have been lost without him.

Satomi-san and all of the staff backed me up so wonderfully. Thank you !!!

Thank you, everybody, who came to see me at the cafe!!!

Today I will just enjoy a calm day... do my housework, laundry, cleaning, cooking and catching up with writing letters and painting.

Speaking at the cafe scientifique

Today I'm very busy preparing my appearance at the cafe scientifique at the Machizukuri-center in Hakodate on Tuesday (6-7p.m). I have never held such a "lecture" before, so I'm a little bit nervous, but also excited. My fantastic husband will help me and translate all I want to tell the people. My Japanese is still not so good, especially when it comes to such special subjects.

As I go through all the different topics I want to talk about, I realize how much I can tell there and I will also bring some books and other things to show the people a little bit about mushroom-lore, enviourment and differences in Japanese/European eating-culture.

I also visited the exhibition again yesterday and I was overwhelmed and how many people came and signed my guest-book. Thank you all sooooo much for your support and feedback !!! And the Brochure which was at my table there is wonderful !!! Whoever designed it, thank you soooo much !!! It was such a lovely surprise and I can't wait to show my Dad the exhibition, when he arrives on Friday.

Did not have much time to paint in the last days, but I want to share a photo, I took last week at Yokotsudake... the gentian ist out there now, too and we had a beautiful hike up there.

Hope to see you all at the cafe-scientifique on Tuesday 25.Aug :)

Fotos from the exhibition and the opening-party

Here are the photos from my exhibition and the opening party of the science-festival. It was such a wonderful event and thank you, everybody for all your kind help, support and feedback. I painted those paintings for 5 months and now it is a wonderful feeling that the day of the exhibition finally came.

I would like to thank Noyuri Mima-sensei, who made this possible for me and wanted me to paint all those mushrooms.
She held a wonderful speech for the opening and I wish her and all the wonderful people, who organize and participate in this fantastic festival all the best !!!

I also want to thank my beloved husband, Tsuyoshi, for all his help, support and encouragement !!! Satomi-san for preparing everything at the site and my kids for their patience with me, while I painted those pics ^^

What a great day !!!

What an exciting day !!!
Today I had the opening of my exhibition, which is part of the science-festival in Hakodate and it was absolutelly fantastic !!!

I'm still overwhelmed by all the support, feedback and great atmosphere there and I'm looking forward to the following days of the festival. I'll upload some pictures and all the news in the next days.

The other great thing which happened was that my painting, which is currently at the exhibition in the USA in LaGrange, Georgia got featured in the newspaper there !!! This is a big honor for me, because 19 other artists are taking part and they are also very, very good.

Don't know if I can sleep tonight. All this news is so fantastic and I want to thank everybody for their help, support and encouragement !!!

Exhibition in Hakodate

Today the kids started school again and I will make the final preparations for the exhibition at the Machizukuri-center in Hakodate. The exhibition will be from 22nd til 28th of August.

I will exhibit 15 paintings of mushrooms of Hokkaido there.

I'm already very excited about it.

Painting all those mushrooms was a big challenge for me, because I did not only have to paint the

mushrooms themselves, but also the correct surrounding and right season for each species.

For further information please check this page (Japanese only):

http://www.sciencefestival.jp/festival/event_a01_07.html