I’ve been working on drawings as a possible gift to my in-laws since my wife will be visiting her family in Japan next month. They live at Lake Yamanaka beside Mt. Fuji. I decided to try a drawing of the mountain and lake, from a photo taken at a spot that they will easily recognize. [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Mt. Fuji and Lake Yamanaka
Posted in Works on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lavender Fields in Provence
Posted in Works on January 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Most of the landscape drawings and paintings I do are from sketches I’ve made outdoors or from photos I’ve taken myself. This week, though, I’ve been working on some drawings of lavender fields in Provence, France, from photos in a calendar we have, along with other photos I’ve looked at recently online or in books. [...]
Zenkoji Chureiren
Posted in Works on January 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Chureiren is a pagoda within the Zenkoji temple grounds in Nagano City, Japan. The drawings below (and the photos they are based on) are somewhat misleading since the temple is located in the heart of the city and not in some densely overgrown forest. Had I panned the camera to the left or right, [...]
Connecticut River
Posted in Works on January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With bad weather recently, I had been unable to take some photos of work I’ve done in the past two weeks, but I’m finally able to add a couple of new posts today. These drawings were done based on photographs I took along the bank of the Connecticut River, near the point in the river where it [...]
Christmas Cactus
Posted in Works on January 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We have a Christmas cactus that my father gave us that has done very well and we’ve now got several of them growing, all from the original plant. Over the Christmas and New Years holidays, one of the larger plants flowered with beautiful pink blooms. I painted the picture below in watercolors of several of [...]
Sagano Rice Paddy
Posted in Works on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These drawings are from a small rice paddy at Sagano, one of my favorite places in Japan. In the trees behind the paddy, there is a small cottage where the famous haiku poet Matsuo Basho stayed and wrote poems. I love the near-perfect flatness of the plane of light green of the rice plants, and [...]
