I'm a little slow, but I just noticed a nice post by Anton, after a very pleasant visit.
washed away /
Three rainy weekends and two typhoons in a row. i will admit that this was the worst October for an exhibition in my 29 years in Japan.
I do want to thank the valliant few that made it thru the storms to visit. And I'm not saying it wasn't fun. It was. I got to fire up my hibachi two weekens in a row and that always makes for a good time.
I did a live painting too. I had planed to do a live painting for 5 weeks, adding a little each Sunday. But i quickly found that when people were visiting the show that there was no room to paint. And when no one was visiting there was no reason.
so I decided to do my live painting live on facebook every week when no one was around. the videos are still there on my facebook page.
October Exhibtion 2017 /
Believe in Magic, the show opened on time and has already run the first two weeks. (open Sundays only)
good group of visitors, and i started the live painiting tody, will continue next week.
getting ready /
Cleaning up and putting things together. I will be showing some new things in October like this scroll. The last job to finish a scroll is waxing the back, then pollishing the wax witha sting of beads. An old crftsman told me it protects the painting from the wall, and it protects it from itself when rolled.
the big push /
Two more days and another October exhibition begins. Every year, for how many years?
The upstairs is closed again this year. One of the beams is still too shaky. The building is from the Taisho Era after all. I fear extra weight or commotion upstairs could cause some one to come right through.
Two more days to clean and prepare. I better get back to it.
dressing up for Golden Week /
I'm trying to work out just how to dress my paintings for the sake Kura at IInumahonke, ShiSui. a new space seems to call for a new kind of scroll. i am still experimenting with a design i first saw and an ancient Mongolian banner, that later turned up in an old temple in Japan. Color too is part of the puzzle.
