The critics are raving

Lots more random meaningless shots here.

I hate to have this site turn into just a bunch of photos, but I take so many each day, and by the time I get them downloaded, do my computer, sorted through, then uploaded to the site, I have spent all my writing time. There must be a better way.

Anyway, this weekend Tomoe's dad (a professional illustrator) came to Tokyo to teach a seminar on putting the Japanese heart into your watercolors. I packed up my portfolio and took it with me to meet him for lunch in Ropongi hills. He's real great at motivating me to start painting more, the way he compliments my work without saying anything obviously a lie such as "This is amazing!" or "wow that's good". He usually talks in much more artsy, foggy terms, about how he can sense my feelings or what-not in the paintings. And I just thought I was copying a photo, or painting a ragged old baseball cap. No matter how much it sounds like a lot of undeserved praise, it still gives me the urge to throw away the computer and start painting every night again...

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