青春18きっぷの消化のため、浜松方面に日帰りスケッチ旅。久しぶりに鳥の声を聞きながら、田園風景をスケッチしました。                                                                                            川の中に鷺がいる。   稲穂が実る黄金色の中を郵便局の車が行く。 心安らぐ風景。

知人の個展を観に行ったついでにスケッチ。ここのところ仕事が忙しいのと雨続きでスケッチ休みがちだったけれど、やはり好きなことに集中できる時間はいいものです。赤城神社の階段の上から、行きかう人を目で追いながら、スケッチしました。

水彩画教室の会の有志の皆さんと一泊でスケッチ旅行に新松田へ出かけました。台風が近づいていた中、いい天気に恵まれ富士山もくっきりと顔を出してくれ、存分に楽しんできました。 高台からの眺め 富士山がよく見えました。 パラレルペンというカリグラフィーペンを使ってみました。 大島も見えました。 同行者の宮原さん。喫茶店内にて。 夕飯はたっぷり。 翌日はAsahiビール工場にてスケッチ、工場見学、試飲を楽しみました。

Alice, Leonie, Steve, Eriko, and I met up and captured popular Harajyuku station in our sketches. This cute station will be demolished in the near future. We feel sorry that Dave from Munich was supposed to join us that day but we were not able to meet/ find each other... Maybe the meeting location was a bit too crowded by visitors.... Sorry Dave, I hope at least you had fun time during your stay in Tokyo ( except that day.)

Leonie and Stephen from Australia; James and Edric from Singapore; Atsuko and I met up in Omotesando, Tokyo. Thanks Edric who led us around (sometimes visitors from overseas know better about where to go.) This is the ideal number of people when to sketch together, go restaurant, and chat. Had fun time.

Last weekend in Matsudo was a cultural festival Bon Odori Festival called Last Summer Fest. I met with Arnie from France, before he got home and drew a few sketches of Tojotei historical garden and festival atmosphere.  松戸のラストサマーフェス＆盆踊りのスケッチと戸定邸・戸定が丘歴史公園のスケッチです。 I was also working as a volunteer this days, selling ice with sweet syrop.  甘いシロップとかき氷が売っていました。⬇︎  We talked about staff we use for drawing and how we draw... So good to meet! :)

Capturing people in motion at Japanese drum show held in Tokyo. It is always challenging, could be a kind of bad manner to those performers...but this is how I keep the moments otherwise the motion and memories disappear just like seeing fireworks.

Today I went to a post office and hear a strong sound of crushing concrete. That was a site cleaning. Scrap and build is a city policy in Japan, which literally mean to crash building and build anew. On average, Japanese housing lives  only around 30 years. It's interesting to learn about what is the reason for that and how such a wastefulness could be overcome.

Yesterday was heavy rain. Very cozy to stay inside the house and listen to the sounds of rain the whole day. Do your stuff little by little, and draw. I drew the sight of a place which I live, 岩瀬自治会館.

Matsudo, on my way to school. You can see a little street sign, where it is written  千葉大学園芸学部⇨