Live painting on the beach, July 28th

Painted at Current, a beach house in Kamakura while listening to beautiful music by beautiful people including Yukalicious, KAZZ, Hironobu Saito, Keison and Shanti against the backdrop of the sound of breaking waves. The added *HUGE* bonus was a chance to see Denjiro Sato's awe-inspiring surf video MANA for the second time! What a treat!!　

Check out Shanti's blog about the event here. (Sorry it's in Japanese but you can view photos!)

鎌倉由比ガ浜の海の家、『カレント』でライブペインティングをさせていただきました。ユカリシャス、KAZZ、西藤大信、Keison、シャンティと、人柄も音楽もとても素敵なミュージシャンたちの音楽を聴きながら、波の音を聴きながら。。　そして 佐藤傅次郎さんの映像、MANAをまた観ることができたのが、この上なく嬉しかったです！！（そしてまた観たい）　ブッチャーさん、ありがとうっ！

詳しくはシャンティのブログを見てね。

turtle with a blue hat

a goldfish I got at a matsuri

dizzy

it's a deer

Another froggie

爬虫類が好き。とくにカエルとヤモリとカメ。どこか顔が似てるし。
前に「ワサビ」っていう名前のカメを飼っていました。カメってくしゃみやあくびをするの、知ってました？その姿がたまらなくかわいいんです。

Emigon loves reptiles. Frogs, geckos and turtles, especially.
She used to have a turtle named Wasabi. Did you know that turtles yawn and sneeze? They're so adorable when they do.

Peacock

At least that's what Emigon says this bird is. She likes it because it's blue.

A snail came for a visit

Emigon loves snails, too! She likes to collect them and line them up along the handle bars of her bicycle. She gets a kick out of touching their eyeballs and watching them pull back and stick back out again. She found a teeny-tiny baby snail last night in the bathroom. Its house was the size of a sesame seed. She couldn't figure out how it kept from falling as it crawled down the wall. She let the snail climb up onto her toothbrush and took it outside where it could safely hang out on a neighbor's plant.

Froggie

Emigon loves frogs. She doesn't understand why some people don't like them or are even scared of them. She used to find lots of them in her yard when she lived in Kugenuma.

Tombou

Emigon's work --butterfly

I've decided to hire another inner artist. Her name is Emigon. She's about 8 years old. She likes to draw bugs and animals. I'll be showing a series of her work for a while :)

Another Thursday afternoon

Taking a break from work to doodle.

Thursday in Asakusa

This is how I was feeling that day.

Drum Art Part Two

Went to do another round of drum art, this time with my friend Kei who's studying to become an art therapist. What fun. In contrast to the last time, where I sat literally inches away from the drum as it was being played, I sat a few seats away this time. It think the difference shows in the images-- bit calmer and less wild, don't you agree?
There were a few more participants this time and the energy in the room during the 10 or so minutes of work was pretty intense. Very exciting.

「ドラム・アート」（と私が勝手に名づけてますが）の第二弾に行ってきました。今回はアートセラピーの勉強をしているお友達のケイちゃんと。前回は太鼓をたたくアキさんの真横に座って絵を描いたのですが、今回は少し離れていました。違いが絵に表れていると思うのですが、いかがでしょう？
参加者ももう少し多く、絵を描いている最中の部屋の空気はとにかく熱かったです！

Timid girls

昨夜またドクタースケッチーに行ってきました。今回のモデルは「小心ズ」。ちょっと（かなり）変わってるけど、そしてほとんど脱がないとのことだったので「つまんないかも。。」なんて思ってたけど、おかしいポーズやいっちゃってる顔など、以外と描きがいがあり、かなり楽しかったです。

Went to another night of Dr. Sketchy's. These are a couple of the five-minute sketches. The models, who curiously call themselves the Shoshins (shoshin means "timid" in Japanese), are a couple of odd-ball pantomiming maids who do seem a bit shy but are courageous enough to get up there and share their eccentric routines. Great fun!

Cherry Typhoon

I just love her.

card

I felt like a kid making this card for my dad.

子供に戻った気分でぐりぐり描きました。5月26日は父の誕生日。

peaceful

東京の中で一番好きなところへ行ってきました。
とても静かで、頭が無駄にぐるぐる空回りしていて疲れてしまっているとき、ゆっくり充電させてくれます。
道端でみつけた葉っぱと甲虫。あたりにたくさんいるのに、なぜかこの子たちが際立って見えました。
ニュージャージーに住む、エイミーという素敵な名前！笑　の高校時代からの友人がたまに、いろんなプレゼントをこちょこちょとたくさんつめた小包を送ってくれます。一つ一つ色紙で包んでいて、いつもわくわくしながら大切に開けるの。その中に入っていた小さな色鉛筆のセットを使いました。

Went to my favorite spot in all of Tokyo. Such a peaceful and welcoming place. I go there every time I feel my mind has overspun from excessive, needless thoughts and I need to recenter and recharge.
These guys, I swear, were beckoning me to come draw them.
I had brought with me a set of 12 kid-sized colored pencils I just received in a lovely care-package from an even lovelier high school friend Amy (with a super-lovely name! hee) in New Jersey.

bloom

I let my paint brush do the work and this is what bloomed.

筆にまかせて描いてみました。

Rose

A lovely sign of spring ♪