2013年12月16日月曜日

Little flames-Cyclamen

Hello! Thank you for visiting my watercolor blog!
I am showing you today a cyclamen flower. Don't you think those buds look like  little flames which are about to burn up?
I hope those little flames comfortably warm your heart up in  freezy days.


Have a nice day!

Yukane

2013年12月14日土曜日

red in winter-poinsettia fairy

Hello!
Today I want to show you one of my small watercolor works(postcard size)-poinsettia fairy.
Red in winter gives us  really warm, joyous and festive feelings.
I hope this fairy is bringing each of you a tiny, but happy moment!


Thank you for visiting and watching my works!

Yukane
 

2013年12月1日日曜日

watercolor work- harvest, lemon fairy

Thank you for visiting my watercolor gallery!
Today, I am going to show you my watercolor work.
This is called 'harvest-lemon fairy'.
Hope you like it.






2013年11月30日土曜日

today's watercolor work

 Thank you for visiting my watercolor blog.
Today I am going to show you lemon fairy.


This is also very small -postcard size.
Thank you for watching!

2013年11月29日金曜日

watercolor work-English oak acorns

I decided to blog as possible as I can; it is a very good practice of my English writing, or as I am not a native speaker of English, I do not have many opportunities to write any English here in Japan. Actually you need not use any English in this country (especially in the country sites),  it's so easy to lose it!

I really like trees in every season and draw them a lot in various colors,  golden and light yellow green in spring, then all kinds of green and  blue shades in gradation in summer, changing gradually into yellow, gold, brown, orange, bronze, purple and red, of course in autumn.
 I even adore the shabby and grim gray shades of winter as  dark colors sometimes let us know the beauty of dim lights.

Today let me share the acorns of English oak tree I met in the UK, and its fairy. This is very small picture, postcard size.




Oh, our dog Koma is now six month old and  really changing: her hair is getting long and she is soooo cute!





I love her so much :)


2013年10月9日水曜日

our dog-2

Our dog will be  five months old at the end of this month, and boy, how big she got!
Now she weighs almost 3 kilos while she was only a 600 gram-weighing tiny little puppy when we first took her our home.
See the big difference from the photos of my last post?





She is so energetic, playful and cheerful and gives me and my family a lot of laughs and smiles.
As I wrote in the last post, she is totally non-barking dog and it is so  stress-less (I do not know if this English word exists)for all of us who are quiet country life lovers.
Sometimes she looks like rather kitty rather than puppy, but she can do sit and wait at her mealtime!


"I am so sleeepy..."




2013年9月20日金曜日

Our Dog

We have been thinking about having our dog for a long time.
 While I was off the blog for quite a long time, we decided to have a puppy, and yes, now we have one!
It is a Japanese Chin, (have you heard about it?)
It's a dog like this photo:


it is kind of a spaniel, but one of Japan-originated dog breed which has a long history.
As we love and enjoy our quiet life in the countryside, we wanted kind a quiet dog; that is one reason for choosing this breed.
Yes, Japanese Chin is a very quiet kind of toy dog which used to be kept inside the house by  Japanese noble people long  long ago.  Japanese Chin are said to be very unique, and seldom bark, and we found it is true.
There are not so many Japanese Chin in Japan now because  the number of them has extremely decreased as the World Wars damaged the country and poverty made it impossible for most of the people after the wars to keep  toy dogs inside the house.  They are unable to live outside without man's protect because they are so sensitive to the summer heat in Japan as well as the cold in the winter.
 We are lucky to have found one.

It is a girl and her name is 'Koma', named after its resemblance of Japanese Koma-inu which is a legendary guardian dog and usually set at the entrance of the shrine.
Actually, some say that Japanese Chin is the model of Koma-inu.

As she is still a puppy, she now has fluffy puppy hair.
Japanese Chin get very long silky gorgeous hair as they grow, and we are looking forward to watch her grow!
here are some of her photos:





She is a very active, playful and clever puppy, we love her very much!
Now she is almost four months old, and she has mastered 'sit' 'lie down' and 'wait', and perfectly toilet trained.
But best of all, she seldom barks even when she gets really excited or scared!