Sunday, December 2, 2012

The 41 UAE National Day

建国記念になにか描こうと、やはり、ラクダに挑戦。
 I wanted to paint this for the UAE National Day. This is from a photo of the Al Ain Camel race track.
これは、一番最初に描いたもの。
塩を使いすぎて失敗。

The above is the second piece, this is the first one. I used too much salt.

自画像を毎日1枚描くことにする。

よく考えれば、
自分の顔を描いたことがなかった。
1年で365枚。
つづくかな?


I've never tried to paint a self -portrait.
I'm planning on painting a self-portrait every day until next December.
I hope I have enough energy and paper.

 

似てるかどうかは、この際無視。
 I should ignore likeliness in this stage.
緑色のわたし。
It is interesing to paint with green.
黄色のバラの花の上に描いてみた。
 I tried to layer my face on a yellow rose.
ラクダ2匹はまだいい。
これが、3匹以上で重なってしまうと、
もう、悲惨。
どれがどの足がわからなくなる。
ラクダが、象のように、短くて、太い足をもっていたら、どれだけ仕事が簡単だろうとおもう。
It's easy to paint camels until you have to paint three all together as it is torture figuring out which legs go to which camel. I wish camels had legs like elephants which are short and big.
Al Ain Camel race track.
We conglatulate UAE on the 41st National Day and wish them continuing progress and lasting prosperity!

7 comments:

  1. Full of Life,full of colors and motion.
    WONDERFUL WATERCOLORS COLLECTION !!!Brava Midori!

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  2. Hello Midori.
    Your camel paintings are wonderful - so full of Life! And bravo to you for attempting self-portraits. That is something I have yet to do.

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  3. Hi, Midori,
    自画像お続け下さい。とても良いですよ。
    Self portraits are nice. Go on. Keep up!! Other works are very beutiful as usual.
    Best wishes, Sadami

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  4. Hello Midori:) These are beautiful pieces of arts. I love camels and you paint them so beautifully! The salt brings beautiful effects. Very nice. The last painting is so wonderful with the camel in the close-up. You painted a lot of details in this one.
    Your selfportraits are wonderful. The green one is so cute. I love it. Well done:)

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  5. うむむ、自分の顔ね・・・
    アタシは見たくないわ~
    現実を直視できまっせん!
    誰も私の顔になんか注目してないのにね。
    やっぱりはにはに母さんの人物は活き活きしてますね、うらやましぃ・・・

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  6. WHAT a wonderful collection of watercolours - I love the desert scenes and your use of salt and the self portraits are looking great, another wonderful blog to add to my list!

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  7. Hi Rita, Kathryn,Sadamisan, Harutyaman,renate and Sharon,

    thank you for the comments.
    portraits are quite difficult. Honestly, I don't want to see my face more than 10 minutes though. It is not good for my eyes.

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