Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Live painting at the Nakanosawa Museum

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.
 

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