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  2009

  Oct 16
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  These are some sketches I did from Chihiro Iwasaki’s book, “Box”. She is a famous Japanese artist of mine. You can see her works at http://www.chihiro.jp/english/chihiro/works.htm
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  2008

  Dec 24
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  I met these birds along the Ala Wai Canal this morning. One strange looking bird was fishing as was one of the white ones. The other is a pigeon. We have mostly white pigeons here in Hawaii….not sure why.
  tags: Ala Wai Canal | birds | Honolulu | lindabachrach.com
   
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  2008

  Dec 20
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  This was something I came upon in a book in my hotel room in Tokyo a couple years ago. The Life Size Project started on New Years Day 2001 at the Meiji Shrine. People make their first shrine visit of the new year on January 1st, so there are many people around and it is a good time for surveys. They ask people of varying ages how long they would like to live. Some of the answers really surprised me. I chose four women with interesting faces and copied their answers. The number on the left tells how old they currently are and on the right is the age they hope to live to. I used pencil and watercolors.

  tags: Life Size Project | lindabachrach.com | Meiji Shrine | Tokyo
   
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  2008

  Dec 19
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  We stayed here for 4 nights as an experiment. Although the room was terrific, the hotel was much too grand for our tastes and the neighborhood a little too quiet. Lots of interesting architectural styles in this neighborhood though.

  tags: lindabachrach.com | Okura Hotel | Tokyo
   
• 
  2008

  Dec 4
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  I purchased some Izutsu yatsuhashi made fresh on site, and was very attracted to the Tale of Genji paper that their box was wrapped in, so I made this collage in my moleskine and added a ginko and a maple leaf I had picked up that day.

  tags: japan | Kyoto | lindabachrach.com | Tale of Genji | yatsuhashi
   
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  2008

  Nov 30
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  Looking out my hotel window towards Higashiyama and the Kamogawa. Egrets, ducks and sometimes blue herons are seen in the river. Snuggled up against the mountains are lots of beautiful temples surrounded by colorful maple and ginko leaves.

  tags: autumn | Higashiyama | Kamogawa | Kyoto | lindabachrach.com
   
• 
  2008

  Nov 28
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  This is done with Sai Watercolor Brush Pens. The Maneki-Neko is a popular character these days and supposedly brings financial success to Asian businesses.

  tags: cat | Furusuke | japan | lindabachrach.com | Maneki Neko
   
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  2008

  Nov 26
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  This was done in Maruyama Park in Kyoto on a beautiful fall Sunday. Children were dressed in traditional attire for the 3-5-7 ceremony blessings, moms were in formal kimono and young girls were sporting shorts, bare legs, and high heel boots, some with woolen scarfs and goosedown jackets. Maples were in bloom as well as weeping willows still green from spring.

  tags: ginko leaf | japan | Kyoto | lindabachrach.com | ShichGoSan
   
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  2008

  Sep 20
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  A collage enhanced with watercolor

  tags: cat | collage | lindabachrach.com
   
• 
  2008

  Aug 27
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  Mixed media in moleskine

  tags: acrylic | collage | kanji | lindabachrach.com | Tropical Haiku | watercolor