A Kutani Bowl for Paula

Hi friend!

Spring comes and cherry blossoms are fully in bloom now here where I current live. I will post the cherry blossoms pictures on my other blog soon!

Stay tunned to my other blog!

http://yumiyumayume.wordpress.com/

Today I show you my new Kutani piece.

http://www.kutaniyaki.or.jp/english/english.html

I painted it for my American friend, Paula. I met her last year at Tybee. She is friends with Suzanne, the owner of the GA school by the sea porcelain arts school in America, and Suzanne introduced me to her. She invited me to her really lovely house, and we had a great time!

She lived in Japan for several years because of her husband’s job and while living in Japan, She had been teaching English to Japanese students. She has been collecting a lot of Japanese antiques and her house is full of Japanese antique furniture, dolls, vases, plates and stuff. Her house is so organized and like a house from a magazine!

A Kutani Bowl For Paula

A Kutani Bowl For Paula

A Kutani Bowl For Paula

A Kutani Bowl For Paula

A Kutani Bowl For Paula

It was very interesting to look around Paula’s house because she was really good at arranging the Japanese antiques into the Western style.

I took some pictures of her house and want to show them. It seems to be very Western from a Japanese point of view but very unique.

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful House

Paula’s Beautiful Hous

I think I’m extremely lucky because every time I go to America, I can make a lot of friends. I’ve been experiencing wonderful things that usually many tourist can’t experience. I appreciate all my friends that I’ve met!

I’m looking forward to visiting her house again and see how she has been decorating my hand painted kutani bowl in her house! When I visit her, I will take the picture and show you!!!

Thank you so much for sharing a wonderful time with me, Paula! See you soon again!!!

-Yumi

The GA School By The Sea Porcelain Arts School

Hi there!!!!

How have you been? It’s been a while since I updated my blog. I returned to Japan from America a week ago. While I was there, I started walking in the morning and I still have been keeping on walking every morning in Japan. It’s really good for me to start a day.

Today’s entry is what I painted in America. I got in the GA school by the sea porcelain arts school and took three classes from international teachers.

My first class was painting a miniature scene with an ex Meissen painter, Joerg Kugelmeier. I met him at the Thai convention last year, and even though I exchanged a small conversation with him, I didn’t talk to him. So, I was a bit nervous to take his class, but taking his class was extremely fun and I really enjoyed it. He was a great teacher and painter. I love painting with the Meissen technqiues. I’m thinking that to go his painting studio in Germany to learn the Meissen techniques more next year! Thank you so much for teaching, Joerg! I’m looking forward to piking on our BAD English each other again, lol!!!!!

A Class subject for the GA School

A Class subject for the GA School

I painted one more plate for my mom during the class.

A Class subject for the GA School

A Class subject for the GA School

My second class was painting a miniature portrait with Cookie Barton, an American portrait painter. Since I like painting royal families, I really enjoyed painting the boy’s portrait. Cookie was also a very good teacher. Since she invited me to go to her painting studio in Oregon, I really want to stop by her painting studio to take her class more!!

A Class Subject for the GA School

A Class Subject for the GA School

Me with Cookie and my classmates

She didn’t touch my portrait and just taught me how to paint it. I love the way that a teacher doesn’t touch a student painting because I can think about my painting.

My Last class was how to do raised past and gold with Sylvia Beythoun from England. I met her three years ago at the Arizona school for the first time. Since then she has been my friend. I love raised pasts and gold, but I’m not good at it and I needed a good teacher. I’m glad that I learned it from her. I really love her gorgeous work and from now on, I want to use the techniques on a lot of my work! I also plan on going to England to learn more from her next year!! See you next year, Sylvia!!!!

A Class Subject for the GA school

A Class Subject for the GA School

A Class Subject for the GA School

A Class Subject for the GA School

A Class Subject for the GA School

I enjoyed learning, hanging out with my friends, painting and everything at the school! I hope I can go there next year again!

My Kutani Plates

Woo Hoo!

How have you been my dear friends? I’m super busy for preparing studying abroad in America. I will leave my house a couple of hours later  and head to Deep South.  Since I will be in America over for a month, I probably can’t update my blog.

Before going back to America, I want to show my newest Kutani on my blog. I’m very happy that I can introduce my newest kutani work.

I bring these kutani pieces to introduce our classical and traditional art style to Americans. I hope you can get some chances to see them. If people are interested in my kutani pieces, just speak to me or my American friend, Gay. I pass these plates to her and she or I can show you them. This May I will have a presentation how to paint the Kutani style at Gay’s school, the Michigan school. If people are interested in how to paint this style, please contact Gay!!!!

It’s very difficult for me to take the best shots of kutani because the kutani colors are made from glasses and it’s really shining.  However, that’s why the colors are very transparent and you can see a lot of lines through the colors.
This is the biggest difference from other Japanese ceramics. I’m into in this painting style and it’s one of my dreams to expand kutani to the world.

My Kutani Plate
Japanese Painting style, Kutani, Koma-inu, Lion dog

My Kutani Plate
Japanese Painting style, Kutani

My Kutani Plate
Japanese Painting style, Kutani, koman-inu, lion dog

Rear side of view, My Kutani Plate
Japanese Painting style, Kutani, Koma-inu, Lion dog

My Hand Painted Kutani Plate

My Hand Painted Kutani Plate

My Hand Painted Kutani Plate

My Hand Painted Kutani Plate

I’m really exited that many American painters are in love with this pretty Japanese painting style!  I’m looking forward to receiving a lot of comments!

See you soon, and don’t miss my kutani plates, my dear Tybee friends!!!!

Dresdens with the American Style!!!!!

Hi there!

Today I got my digital camera from the electric shop where I bought it. I took some my newest Dresden plates’s pictures immidiataly!

I’m happy that I can show my newest artwork here again!!

I painted them with open medium and named the techniques Dresden with the American style because I usually paint Dresdens with fat oil.

I used some San Do’s painting medium and mixing medium, but I’m happy they seem to be as pretty as painting with some fat oil.

A Baby Plate with the Dresden Style

A Baby Plate with the Dresden Style

A Baby Plate for the Dresden Style

A Dresden Plate 1

A Dresden Plate 1

A Dresden Plate 2

A Dresden Plate 2

A Dresden Plate 3

A Dresden Plate 3

I used my Dresden teacher, Alfredo Tradano’s Dresden patterns, but I I painted them with some Japanese colors for Dresden, some Japanese and British blushes that I’ve been used to, some San Do’s mixing and painting medium. I designed them by myself. I think for Dresden beginners, using some open medium is much easier to handle. I like this techniques.

Which one do you like the best?

My Jewelry Painting

Hi there!

It’s been a while since I posted my last entry. How have you been?

I don’t like saying excuses, but I screwed up some of my kutani plates that would be supposed to become my first blog entry  a couple of days ago.  In addition, my digital camera died and I’ve been fixing it. So, for a while, I couldn’t post anything here.  Although I still haven’t gotten my camera yet, I realized that I have some pictures of my Jewelry painting that I painted for the Thai convention in my PC.

It was supposed to become my teaching project at Bangsai, the royal academy of porcelain painting in Thailand, but I taught a different piece of jewelry.

So, today I want to show my new jewelry painting.

My Jewelry Painting

My Jewelry Painting

My Jewelry Painting

My Jewelry Painting

2012 in review

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A Pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Sets with the Kutani Style

Hi there!

How are you enjoying your holiday season?  I’ve been enjoying painting my newest kutani plate. It will be supposed to become my newest blog entry next year! So, please stay tuned to my blog next year too!

Meanwhile, I really want to thank you all for visiting my blog! Thank you so much for visiting and leaving a lot of comments!

This blog entry is the last this year. I painted the matching cup and saucer sets with the Japanese painting style, Kutani.

A pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Set with Kutani Painting

A pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Set with Kutani Painting

A pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Set with Kutani Painting

A pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Set with Kutani Painting

A pair of Matching Cup and Saucer Set with Kutani Painting

I brought these matching cup and saucer sets to Helag’s and there are in Helga’s house now.  Robert and Helga love my hand painted kutani set and she has been decorating them on a table of their living room.

Next year I will finish painting at least 50 pieces of Kutani. You difinitely will see a lot of my hand painted kutani paintings on my blog next year!

I’d like to improve my painting skills of Kutani and I also want to brush up my painting skills of the Western style more next year!

I wish all of you had wonderful new year days and enjoy your holidays!!!

Love,

Yumi