梅雨の時期の森歩きから、キシメジ科ホウライタケ属のキノコのスケッチ。 Do you know why there are many mushrooms in the forest after rain? It's because when it rains, ...

The rainy season is over and proper summer has come in Japan. Here are some of my summer sketches from the weekend. The little terraced...

I joined a seabird research in Sagami Bay and off the Jogashima island. As we moved farther out to sea, the land scenery got lower and low...

市ヶ谷の山脇ギャラリーで開かれた日本ワイルドライフアート協会展が無事終了した。今年は協会設立20周年記念で、大きな作品が多かったように思う。 暑いなか見に来てくださったみなさま、どうもありがとうございました。たくさんの知り合いのお名前を芳名帳に発見しうれしかったです。 ...

I had a hard but inspiring week.  I joined a summer workshop for children's book illustrators at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo. The...

I like wild flowers a lot more than garden ones and normally don't fancy the latter. But this Chinese trumpet vine is something that I ...

We were planning to have another sketching day at Terugasaki, the small rocky shore in Oiso, to draw White-bellied Green Pigeons coming to d...

三浦で磯遊びをしてきた。 アオウミウシをちゃんと自分で見つけられて、うれしかった。磯に絵の具を持ち出して、水の中で動き回るウミウシのフィールドスケッチに挑戦。目の前にはいるけれど、水の中なのでスケッチブックを持っては近づけず、けっこう難しいことがわかった。やっぱりこういう生き物...

On the 21st of June, we had another sketching day. The midsummer day. I couldn't help but thinking that for the last three years, I sp...

I had a lot to do for the last few weeks. But when you are busy, you somehow come up with things that you really want to do.  Making an illu...