HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH

HIROSHIGE AND VAN GOGH
Read About Van Gogh's Secret Visit to Japan

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN

WELCOME TO BLOGABOUTJAPAN
IT WAS A SPECIAL TIME IN MY LIFETIME

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...

APT WITH TATAMI MATS, a special time in my lifetime in Japan...
Watercolor by R.L.Huffstutter

COMPARISONS IN ART

COMPARISONS IN ART
HIROSHIGE'S WORK ON LEFT, VAN GOGH'S ON RIGHT

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW

YOKOHAMA PICTURE SHOW
Shot with my Petri in Yokohama 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962

RICE FIELD IN JAPAN 1962
I took this with my PETRI in Kanagawa Prefecture

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

KINTAI BRIDGE


KINTAI BRIDGE
Originally uploaded by roberthuffstutter

YOKOHAMA HARBOR 1961 WATERCOLOR

One might think that I reside in Japan and spend much of my time sketching and painting the sights and scenery. While this is what I would really enjoy, and hope to do sometime in the future, my sketches and painting are usually the subjects of dream, memories. Sometimes, what we see in dreams is what we have seen at some time during our lifetimes. Such is the case with scenes like the one above.

My fear is that my work might become to generic, however, as one gets older, sometimes the details of youth become more accurate, and they become revelations of another era, the years between then and now lifted like a fog to make the scene more clear, a revelation of the past made clear in a dream for the joy of capturing the moment once more.

If you have not yet visited my online-only blog, BLOGABOUTJAPAN, here's an invitation:

CHINATOWN IN YOKOHAMA, 1961

My latest watercolor with pen and ink, one of my memories of Yokohama. When these memories come back, I try to capture them as soon as possible.
What we see in dreams are often what we saw in life.

CHINATOWN IN YOKOHAMA, 1961
Uploaded by roberthuffstutter on 9 Aug 10, 11.04AM PDT.