I was a lucky participant of the Asia-Link Sketchwalk in Taichung, Taiwan in 2018. When I go there, Kumi introduced her friend Elaine, who lives in Taichung. She kindly met me and introduced her friend Claire to get to Taomi, where I wanted to go to see eco-village's frogs after the Sketh-Link. So, thanks to these people it became a sketch exchange in the famous eco-village Taomi , Puli Township, Taiwan.  ←With Elaine Jean on the first day of Sketch-Link in Taichung Claire picked me up in Puli and made a favor to me, introducing her hometown and friends. My goal was to see the frogs, for which the Taomi village is famous, so we go to Frog Grandma's hostel together with the local sketchers group. There we sketched the garden of the Grandma. It was full of flowers and butterflies. The leader of the sketching group is the oldest sketcher in Puli. His name is Sun Shao-Ying (or Sun Sensei, how the group called him). Among his works is documentation of the Jiji earthq...

Aaron Blaise, a skilled and well known artist visited Japan and he had open sketch day in a zoo. I went there and was able to walk behind him together with other participants, and was able to see how he capture animals on his sketch pad. His deep understanding and analysis make him enable draw perfect form of any creature regardless the subject being stay still or not during sketching. While he drew animals, I tried capture him. Thank you Aaron for the inspiration and those who organized the day as well.

Hi Everyone! Last week I was honoured to do a practice in Kyoto Imperial gardens as a student of Horticulture department of Chiba University . Oh, basically, we collected old leaves and turned over the stones in the atmosphere temperature 35 C (feels like 38) and humidity 67%. In between I made some sketches about our work and Kyoto. Sento imperial palace Sento imperial palace Drawing during lunch break Kyoto Kyoto    Imperial Palace Teryu-ji, Arashiyama Meet ojiisan in the park Bank of Kamo river Kyoto Imperial Palace Fushimi Inari Shugakuin  Imperial villa    Katsura Imperial villa    Katsura Imperial villa     Shugakuin Imperial villa After practice  went to Nara and Uji Nara city Nara  city Nara, Todaiji temple Naramachi hostel Uji ci...