Memory of the summer 1985

Long time no seeing, everybody!
Sorry for a long time no update. Lately, I was doing my new blog on yahoo Japan, so I couldn’t take care of this blog.

But I thought that maybe I can’t upload articles about making violin everyday, but as long as if there was somebody visiting this blog I wanna share something. Lately my big hobbies are playing violin and watercolor painting. Oh, by the way I already finished to make my 4th violin the other day. Sorry I didn’t show much part of making that.

(After finishing vurnish)

Now I play mostly this violin. The sound is not perfect, of course it’s still really young flesh violin, but my violin teacher confirmed it will improve for sure if I continue playing it. For the moment I’m not satisfied about the sound, but one day I’ll show how it sounds on this blog (it’ll be my poor playing though!! Hehehe!)


Anyway, what I want to share on this blog with you guys is my hobby. And I want you guys to see my watercolor paintings too. I want to hear the comments - not criticizing- from people all over the world! If you like my paintings, pls tell me your feeling, I’ll be so glad!!


Well, which one should I show you as a first painting? Hmmm, OK, I’ll show you the latest one which I finished 1week ago.


Memory of the summer 1985

When I was a kid, my parents were both working, so I had to go to the afterschool school which take care of kids like me. In this special school, they had summer camp every year, and I loved to go the camping with my friends.
Since I grew up in the city area of Japan, I loved going to nature side. But great time passes so quick. I always missed this special time. This painting is showing when I was going back to home with my Mom by the small train. This is based on my memory of the summer 1985. Do you have this kind of memory?

Vannes

The city Vannes is located near the central city (Rennes) of Bretagne in France. This city is about 1 hour by car from Rennes.
I went to there in summer of 2005 and 2006. There are always many tourists from all over the world to this city.
The city was surrounded by old old walls that were defending this town from enemies in Mid-century, probably.
The animated area of this town is still inside of the walls, so we have to pass the gate to enter the center of the town. This is pretty interesting for me, because there's no city in my country which is surrounded by walls like this.
In Japan, in Mid-century, castles were surrounded by huge walls and towns were also surrounding the castles. So, government was always protected by walls and town.
But in Europe, usually town is also surrounded by walls like this town. The center is always a church.

watercolor, F4

In this town, many houses have colorful columns in outside of walls. This is pretty.
And many houses are really crooked, it looked like they are almost turning down. But even though they are crooked, people are living as if it’s quite normal. This is really unbelievable thing in my country, but it’s interesting.

I found two crooked old houses, in the edge of animated area. They didn’t have colorful columns, they had really old natural wood columns that looked great for me. They looked like they are managing little private hotels. I liked the colors of these houses. And the small narrow road was also crooked and filled with pebbles. I tried to make a nostalgic atmosphere on my picture by using just few colors…

(Vannes is here.)

Sometimes,

I draw and paint a picture...

It's not related to making violin though. ^^;)

watercolor、Arche(26cm×36cm)

I drew a picture of "Le Chateau de Josselin" where I visited last winter.
(Chateau de Josselin, Bretagne, France)

There is a small town Josselin near by the central city(Rennes) of Bretagne in France. And there is a nice atmosphere castle in this small town. Did this castle dominant this area in the past? The town has also pretty nice atmosphere which reminds me the movie "Lord of the ring". Many houses have really small entrance, looked like Hobits were living there.

The castle is standing next to the small river, and I looked for a nice point of view. When I went to the upper side of the river, I found the castle's reflection on the surface of river was beautiful. And there was also nice small bridge.
It was Sunday before Christmas, there was really less people, and almost all the shops were closed. But the town had still nice atmosphere. I thought there must be much more tourist in usual weekend... Only the middl age couple was walking along the river towards the castle.

Josselin is here.