date: 26 jun 2021
hydrangeas in sankeien, kanagawa on a cloudy day
October 22, 2021
interiors
date: 4 may 2021
the living/dining room of the kind lady who hosted me for 3 days on hachijojima
date: 20 sep 2021
was sat at the counter of a busy and popular refurbished restaurant in sawara. the retro furnishings was so interesting i just had to draw it. the mirror with bottles of alcohol on the left reminds me of manet’s “A Bar at the Folies Bergere”
date: 31 jan 2021
a sketch of the interior of a random cafe in chiba after buying secondhand dishware
date: 6 mar 2021
a quick sketch of a child-friendly cafe over cream puff, cake and latte. for those who don’t know what i was drawing, from left: water server, stairs in the background leading to a loft with a bookshelf at the landing, some seats on the right blocked by the television.
October 15, 2021
retro buildings
date: 14 mar 2021
yokohama cosmoworld, a free-to-enter amusement park where buildings have western facades and the ground is pink. painted this before a date because yokohama is not somewhere i go everyday and i wanted to make the most of the trip.
date: 23 jul 2021
a quick 45 minute painting of the traditional airbnb house and its pretty garden that i stayed at in teshima island, kagawa
date: 20 sep 2021
historic district of sawara, chiba. smaller than some historic districts i’ve been to, but i liked the not-too-touristy feel and the variety of meiji-era brick buildings and traditional japanese plaster warehouses and wooden buildings is interesting. quite proud of this considering it’s been some time since i last painted.
October 8, 2021
urban sketchers portraits
date: 25 sep 2021
urban sketchers auckland zoom session
October 1, 2021
hachijojima seaside paintings
date: 2 may 2021
sat on a rock to paint this view and had to climb down and look for it when a gust of wind blew it away. painted with seawater.
date: 2 may 2021
a quick-ish painting of kaminato fishing port in the late afternoon that i was surprisingly pleased with. painted with seawater
September 26, 2021
spring sketches: sumida riverside parks
date: 28 feb 2021
paintings of plum blossoms in the near-ish park
February 27, 2021
tokyo buildings
date: 1 dec 2019
done on a urban sketchers outing in kagurazaka
date: 28 dec 2020
screwed up the scale big time and washed out what i could
February 20, 2021
old and random sketches
some pen drawings that i never got round to recording…
February 13, 2021
japanese temples
date: 1 dec 2019
urban sketch of zenkokuji temple in kagurazaka, tokyo. the buildings are all messed up
date: 7 nov 2020
kindo hall, toji temple in kyoto through the autumn foliage
date: 20 dec 2020
pagoda in sensoji temple, tokyo with autumn trees
February 6, 2021
cafe interiors
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