Let's have a happy time

「クロワッサン」を教室で制作中(水彩なぜか食べ物を描くのは精神的にもいい感じ)

さまざまな事情で絵から離れた人から時々ハガキなどを頂くそれらのなかには「あの時間は最も幸せな時間でした」と書いてあることが少なくない多少の美辞麗句はあるとしても正直な心情も込められていると感じる

一枚の絵を描くのには大小さまざまな山や川を越えなくてはならないそれらの幾多のハードルの中でいちばん大きな山が「時間」だろう「お金」という人もいるだろうがそれはたぶんお金を稼ぐために絵を描いている時間がないということだと解釈しているコストという意味では絵は最もお金のかからない精神的な遊びのひとつだ実際に鉛筆一本で自分の世界観を表現することは誰にでも可能だから原始時代の洞窟壁画には鉛筆すらなかった

家族の成長とか老化などいろんな条件を勘案して「自由に伸びのび(気楽に)」絵が描ける(絵に限らないが)時間を試算してみたことがある同じことを考える人は少なくないらしくそれらの意見を総合するとだいたい3~10年くらいになりそうだ日本人の平均寿命が男女とも80歳を超えて久しいのにこの短さは何を表しているのだろうか―わたしの周囲の人々の多くは皆さん軽く10年以上描き続けている。That means、単に“ラッキーな人生”ということではなくむしろ相当な犠牲を払ってでもそれを続けているということになるのだろうか

ある女性美術家がわたしに言った「絵を描いている人はみんな愛しく思える可愛いと感じる」自分が愛する「絵」をずっと愛し続けている人はみなかけがえのない仲間だそんな気持ちの表現だろうと思う彼女ほどの心境にはわたしまだ達していないが犠牲を払うほど絵は純化していくような気がするシーンと集中して筆を動かしている人を見ていると幸福というのは外から見えるようなものではなくそういう一瞬一瞬にあるものかななどとも思う

Black Pepper Edo Dialect-Great Derailment

Black Pepper (oil painting)

While calling it “a new journey in 2022”、What I am currently doing is cleaning up the aftermath of 2021.。It doesn't matter that I finished something like this.、If I don't clean up, I feel like I'll be wearing yesterday's socks again today and it feels weird.。And what's more, you can't show it to me、It's even more horrifying that she seems to be showing her unwashed pants instead of her socks.、Today's production was a "commandment" to myself that that was the only way to do it (Maybe I was a masochist?)。

“Masochist” incidentally.、Isn't a feeling similar to that already instilled in most Japanese people? I always think that。Just think about it.、For example, "sontaku"。Ruth Benedict's ``The Chrysanthemum and the Sword'' became a hot topic a while ago.、If you think about ``reading the atmosphere,'' which became a buzzword a few years ago,、It can be traced back to the Asuka period rather than the Edo period.、Isn't it the same mental structure? Japanese DNA, so to speak.。This won't change easily。

It's too off track。-In short, it's just a matter of trying to do something with oil paint that was done with CG.。But let's do it、When using the “real material” of oil paint,、For example, if you have a joint disease, it will clearly show up in the picture.。I'm sure that's true of CG as well.、I think it would be quite difficult to hope for a CG eye that can see through that.。-in short、drawing on a computer、I'm just saying that painting with oil paint might not be the same.。

"Isn't that obvious?" - Do you really understand "of course"? Don't make fun of modern computers - again、I'm off track。Erm、Where is the "main line"?

明けましておめでとうございます。

明けましておめでとうございます。Thank you for your continued support this year。

What did you start with this year? It's already the third day of 2022。Like light and shadow、is。Old people are great、I'm still impressed by how amazingly imaginative it is to compare the speed of time to an arrow.。For the time being, I did the customary “drawing” on New Year’s Day.、I marked the “○○ mark” on the “light and shade”.。

According to Einstein's theory of relativity、go back in time、In other words, it is theoretically possible to go back to the past.、He has not said whether a time machine is actually possible.。

It has become clear that a time machine cannot be manufactured.、That sound still touches me somewhere in my heart.。I'm at an age where I tend to look back on the past.、If you have a time machine, you should be able to go to the future.。This year, I want to hop into a time machine in my mind and travel 10 years into the future.。