Friday, January 12, 2007

IF: 80's


Top is a pic I took in the 80's when I lived in Japan, of little boy and his sister dressed in traditional hakama and kimono for Shichi-Go-San Day, which is celebrated the 15th of Nov. I took their piture right as they were entering the gate of the shrine with there mom. I did this watercolor of them in the 90's. Below are sketches I did during that period of time.


20 comments:

  1. geisha? nice painting

    you were Japan that time?

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  2. Wonderful personal sketches. I hope you have good memories to go with them.

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  3. Very cool Michael! I know just a small amount of Japanese so I could communicate minimally with my Japanese agent. Always wanted to go but ot yet... Beautiful image and cool sketches.

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  4. Awww... That must be quite an experience. I admire their culture a lot... and I loooove sushi!

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  5. Wonderful color palette used on the watercolor, and those futuristic sketches remind me that now, two decades later, the future is still a ways away.

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  6. Nice works!! The color palette is wonderful!

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  7. I like your watercolor. Never could get the hang of the medium myself.

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  8. How interesting it must have been to have experienced the 80s on the other side of the world! Nice to have some commentary from you as well!

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  9. you´ve created a very nice atmosphere, great!

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  10. The guy in the sketch on the left is just too cool for the blog.

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  11. How amazing!
    At that time, did you eat chitose-ame? (thousand-year candy)
    Wonderful works. And, wonderful 80's.

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  12. It's so great to see past work. Love your piece from Japan especially.

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  13. Shichi go san!! That's gret! I started short story about tht, but since I've never lived there, I was missing some really basic stuff I needed to know to make it fly. But it was a really cool concept, all the same-- how neat!

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  14. Very unique sketches and watercolour. Like the watercolour piece very much...

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  15. I really like that watercolor and the in the moment feel to it. Japan seems beautiful and charmed, your piece reflects, I'm with another commentor-beautiful color pallette.
    I like your sketches, seems like there's a lot hidden by the use of those sunglasses.
    Wonderful stuff!

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  16. Wow that's much cooler than what I was doing in the 80's! The drawing of the rap around shades-beard-vest combo is wicked. It's like the Macho man meets the Office. Awesome!

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  17. An all round lovely composition that really draws you in - quite a think-piece (ie: definitely a work of art).

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