Last week I was in Gunma, at the Nakanosawa Museum for a talk about my exhibition and a live painting demonstration. Some old friends and some new. It was fun to dip the brooms and the brushes into the ink and try a live painting. It is always a question as to what I should paint and a problem of how long to talk. People come, some come a long way. I want to try and share something. But I don't want to run on so long as to make people bored. I hoped to speak and paint for 15 or 20 minutes, but it seems I rambled on for 45. These things happen. I hope it was OK. it is a little hard to know from the inside. But nobody punched me and no one fell asleep, so OK.
I will do one more live painting at the Museum on the last day, a much smaller painting. It will be in connection with a closing day concert at the museum, Sunday June 30th.
I painted on 2 sheets of fine cotton cloth, using good sumi ink, a fine Japanese brush from Kumano, Hiroshima, and a small broom from the 100 yen store.
