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2 years ago I made this bird-house from beach driftwood. I put it in a tree, but no birds came to live in it. I moved it to another tree, but later I checked it & wasps (hornets?) were living in it! I got rid of them, and last autumn I put it in a new place. I hope that this spring some birds will move in.
I love traditional Japanese black, cast-iron teapots.
I have a couple (which I bought at Osu Kanon markets) at home in Australia.
This is a picture (20 x 30 cm woodblock print) I did of them.
When we look at wooden kids` toys in shops, I often say to my wife "Huh - I could make that!"
It really annoys her.
Maybe this is because:
1. It`s not true
2. I say this, but then do nothing
3. When we go shopping, everything annoys my wife
4. Especially me
But this is one toy that Owen really seemed to like, and it looked pretty easy to make, so on my holidays I made this version from wood I had lying around.
This is my 2011 Year of the Rabbit nengajo design. This year I attempted a 2-colour woodblock print for the first time in ages - usually I just use black. It was extra work - and some trouble - but I think it looks good.
If you`re not Japanese, maybe you don`t know that on the back of post office issued nengajo, there are numbers down the bottom - they`re lottery numbers! The winning numbers are released on the 15th of January. I hope I win something!
Have you ever won a nengajo lottery prize? What was it?
This is my nengajo (new year`s card) from last year, year of the tiger. The design was inspired by traditional Thai tattoos. It`s a hanga (woodblock print).
I also made a woodblock print for my nengajo for 2011 - year of the rabbit. I sent most of them yesterday, and the rest today. I hope they arrive in time.
Have you sent all your nengajo? Did you make your own design?
I`ll show you my 2011 nengajo picture in a couple of days.
I love orchids, & they are quite common in Thailand, where I used to live. I took photos of some that were in my friends` garden in Nonthaburi, in the north of Bangkok, & a long time later (in Japan in 2008) I did these small pictures.
They are pencil & watercolor, 16 x 16cm.
They have been on the wall of my classroom since 2008 & you can see the paper has become very brown from exposure; you can see the edges are still white where they were covered by the frames, (which I took them out of to scan).
In 2001 I stayed in a traditional Japanese-style ryokan (guesthouse) in Ohno in Gifu Prefecture. There was a square `irori` cooking pit in the floor of the living room, with a variety of iron hook-and-lever systems(jizaikagi) for holding pots above it.
I made sketches there, then did this 20 x 30cm woodblock print later at home.
My father-in-law had some old wood that he said I could use, so I decided to try to make a bookcase.
It took me a while, and I made lots of mistakes; one reason was because a lot of the wood wasn`t straight. However, I`m creative and - like my finished bookcase - flexible, so I discovered ways around this problem. Some of the techniques I used would make my high-school woodwork teacher`s pens explode from the top of his long socks like rockets if he knew, but in the end I`m pretty happy with the result.
The next big challenge is making my wife let me use it in the house...
This is a woodblock print I did in 2007, using black acrylic paint. I added color (watercolor paint) by hand afterwards.
The size is 20 x 30cm.
I saw these objects in this arrangement in the grounds of a temple somewhere in Yoro. I was out riding my bike & exploring the countryside at that time.
The frame on this one is real!
This is a new series on my blog called "otto-no-arto" (Otto`s Art).
Nowadays I don`t paint or draw much, so some of these pictures are not recent, but I hope you enjoy looking at them anyway.
This is a lino-cut print using acrylic paint. The size is 10cm x 7cm. I made it in 2003.
By the way, the frame isn`t real. I found the frame image on the internet, then I cut & pasted a scan of my picture onto the frame.
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