I decided to submit my photos to an Internet art gallery.

I submitted my brush art "Woman" to an art exhibition of Internet art gallery in the States last year, and my brush work was not accepted. The other day their news letter was delivered to me. It said, " Our Spring Art Exhibition(2D-3D-Photo/Digital) will be held online this April. Grand opening is April 1 and entry dead line is March 1 ".
I was looking for a photo exhibition. I wanted a professional photographer to see my photos and digital photo art. I thought that was a good chance. So I decided to enter for the exhibition. Now I will show you four photos submitted.

A Tree in Spring
When I saw this tree last early spring, it was really bare and looked funny. The top of the trunk and the branches were cruelly cut down. I was quite interested in what it would be like. I met it again last Dec.15. It was well grown with green leaves just like in the middle of spring. The scenery was that wintry trees could be seen far in a desolate field.

Chestnuts in the Snow
It was snowing. I love snow. I ran out of the house carrying a camera with me. I did not mind that the camera was wet with snow. There are a bamboo forest and chestnut trees behind our house. The wind was blowing very strong. The bamboo forest was shaking itself quite hard with the hair tossing about. But the chestnuts just stood there in the snow waiting for spring.

A Scatter of the Morning sun
You can see this is blurred. I have a bad habit in taking photos. Sometimes a camera moves slightly. I try not to. Anyway this time also I finely moved a camera aiming at the morning sun out of the bamboo forest. But I was interested in the blurred photo. I boldly processed it in color and brightness. I believe that it has turned another.

Bamboo Forest and Snowy Branches of the Chestnut
I took the photo next morning after the snow. I had an idea to make it a picture like a Japanese traditional drawing, for instance, the one painted on the holding screen or sliding door in the Edo era. First of all I trimmed four sides of the photo and then colored it vividly. This is it.

I will offer my blog to the two ladies I love.

When I was young, I worked for an American military family in Fukuoka, Japan attending college at night. They were a nice couple. Mr. Haff was a naval officer. After his retirement they returned to California where their daughter had been waiting for them. She had once visited Japan to see her parents and then I went out with her in Tokyo. She was beautiful then. Of course , she still is. So I have kept in close touch with them. I went to the States three times to see them, but the last time was a trip to visit his grave. Mrs. Haff has been sick in bed since the fall before last being nursed by her daughter.
I am heartily eager for her early recovery. I am always thinking of them. I am sending my big hug and kiss to them from Japan.


" Temple of the next morning after the Snow "

We had the first snow in winter Dec. 16 here in Sugeo. Then it snowed several times. It was about 6 or 7 inches in depth when the snow lay deepest on the ground. The next morning after the snow I happened to pass by a temple covered with the rest of the snow.


Children's Story " Two Japane Cedars of Inari Shrine Hill"

An Inari shrine is the one where the god of the harvest is worshiped. And in Japan a fox is supposed to be a bearer of the god or to be the god. You can see red little gateways to an Inari shrine by two Japan cedars. When you look at the photo, maybe you can make a children's story for your kids. Why don't you do that?


" Maki Shrine "

There are great number of temples and shrines in Japan. Most of them must have been built with Japanese cypresses, which are beautiful like you see. This shrine is now under construction. It is brightening in the rising sun.


" Maki Shrine under Construction "

Digital Photo Art " Flowers of Light out of the Bamboo Forest "

This is my new art " Digital Photo Art ". I have a bad habit when I take a picture. A camera moves slightly once in a while. This photo is slightly blurred. But I thought of it as interesting. So I really worked and treated the slightly blurred photo. It looks like to be quite another photo now.


Digital Photo Art " Mountains of a Drawing in Indian Ink "

Have you ever seen a drawing in Indian ink? It is a traditional art in Japan and is also called a landscape painting in Eastern Asia. I tried to make a photo look like it by using my new art technique. I am sure that I succeeded in it.


Digital Photo Art " Mountains in Takamori of a Drawing in Indian Ink "

Digital Photo Art " Watercolor Painting "


Digital Photo Art " Green Evening "

Other Brush Works of My " Brush Art "

As I told you before, I am a brush artist, brush art designer and brush font designer. I am going to show you other brush works.

"WomanWoman"


"Love Ai"
"Ai" means "Love" in Japanese.


Collage: "Liebe"
"Liebe" means "Love" in Germany.


"LIVE"


My Brush Font Sample: L

Photos of my "Digital Photo Art" & Chestnuts in the Drizzle

It was drizzling on the morning of Jan. 1, but it was a fine misty rain. So I decided to use a camera in the drizzle. It was a challenge for me to take photos of the chestnut trees behind our house in the rain. I had never done that before. After the photography I extremely and boldly worked and treated those photos with Microsoft Office Picture Manager for my "Digital Photo Art". You will see four of them just underneath. And I also tried to draw out the feeling of a material about wet chestnuts or lichen.

Blue Etching of a Chestnut Tree


Chestnuts in a Monotone


Chestnut in Pastel Colors


Sepia Chestnut


Chestnuts in the Drizzle


Chestnut Trunk Covered with Lichen


Chestnut Trunk Covered with Lichen in the Drizzle


Chestnut Branches in the Drizzle