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Here are some shots from my fist exhibition. Being the "webmaster" that I am, I felt an urge to sit an watch how many "hits" I got, and how long people spent looking at my painting. Of course I got as many hits as visitors to the Kichijyoji Art Museum (where the exhibition is heald) that day, but I was happy that as far as I saw, people spent an average of 1.3 seconds longer looking at my painting that the average time of looking at other paintings. I also heard more comments about my painting than other paintings. Mostly were just "Kawaii desu ne" (isn't it cute?). One said "Oh, a foreigner painted this". To be fair, I didn't spend any time listening to comments about other paintings.
Anyway, here it is.
When I left, some people realized that I was the painter of the cute bird on the bamboo, and before long, a line formed in the middle of the street of people asking for my autograph.
This is Kumiko's painting. She is actually the one who got me back into the whole art / drawing / painting scene, which I had given up in about 10th grade. Any long time readers of my site may remember when I went to one of her exhibitions last year (put on by the same group). I started to remember how I liked drawing, and always wanted to get better at it, and to learn to paint. I later joined the same nudie drawing club, and the rest will be history someday. (when all my high-school sketches of Maria and Spider-man -now in Jon's posession- become valuable).
And here are some of the other paintings from the show, and pictures of people contemplating the symbolism in my work. My favorite is the "Fishing people". (I didn't ask everyone if I could post closeups of the paintings, so didn't feel comfortable doing that. I will ask and maybe next week post them.)
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