Colleage.

For my friend's wedding...


I made a conscious of Ponyo's world. ( Shapes of wave looks like fishes)
It took for 2 month to complete,I was doing only this work in November...
But I enjoyed to make it.

I hope she loves this one!


YUKO

Rainy.

It rained off and on nowadays.

I forgot an umbrella/2002

I liked London's raining.
While I've been there(3 weeks?),it was almost rainy days.

NY's raining is severe like a disaster.

I hope the weather clears up on weekend.


YUKO

Wonderland

wonderland/2005 　1621×1303　

　　　　

This painting is the biggest one in my life.
You can see it @ our living room.


YUKO

Tokyo.

From Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building


この絵を描いたのはNYに来る直前、最後に個展をさせてもらったとき。
期待と不安が入り交じったなか、久しぶりに夜ではない景色を描いた。

選んだ天気は曇り。
だって東京ってほんと汚いっていうか、ごちゃごちゃしてて。
白や茶色を混ぜたほうが東京っぽいとおもったから。
NYはもっと汚かったけど。。。

それから楽しかったり悲しかったり、苦しかったり、いろんな感情も合わせて、ブルー。

Raw UmberとUItramarine Deep を混ぜた色が世界で一番すき。
この2つだけは、WINSOR＆NEWTON社のものじゃなきゃ、イヤ。
数少ないわたしのこだわり。


YUKO

Experiment 4.

Using this kind of color is thoroughly new! for me.
I just enjoyed to paint it without any notion.
And I can say now,this painting can be a bifurcation point...:D

YUKO

RE:Experiment 3. (Vague)

Can u figure out how different from this!?

YUKO

Experiment 3. (Vague)

He has brown skin color,but I wanted to express without brown.And I reduced range of color.
This painting's theme is "Vague".

前回は”できるだけ筆を使わない”という意向で描いたのだけど、今回は”曖昧さ”を表現しようと試みた。彼は茶色い肌を持ってるけど白ベースだったらどうなるのかな、という感じ。
色彩の幅も減らしてみて、使った絵の具は5種類くらい。
わたしはあまり満足してないので描き足す方向なんだけど、Peterが最高！と言うので一段落、写真に撮った。

自分の価値観の中だけで生きてると、一生満足する絵なんて描けないよなあとおもいつつ。
もし満足する絵が描けてしまったら、絵描きを廃業するとおもう：P

YUKO

Experiment 2.

I had met him at my friend's farewell party.
He is Italian,nice guy,looked different from everything...

How can I say... I got strange impression from him. And I asked him to paint his face.
We had a conversation few minutes,and I think he left from that party.
Unfortunately I forgot his name,and he wasn't my friend's friend.
It's mean there are no connection between him and me. If I look for him very hard,I might find but I don't wanna do it now. I have only one photo of him. That's it. I know about him only few things.. I don't know he still stays NY or went to Milano. I don't care somehow.

Don't u think it's funny the fact "A painter paint and strain a stranger guy"????

It was first experience to be attracted by people as a model.
Anyway I'm still painting him and thinking about him.

In this painting,I used only painting knife as much I can.

I'll write this story in Japanese later...
My experiment hasn't finished still now.

YUKO

Experiment 1.

It was first time to paint like this....
I haven't satisfied,No! I think this painting is sucks! What a hell! OMG!
But I'm doing this kind of experiment now.

こいう感じで描いたのは始めてのこと。
全然満足してないけど。てゆかこの絵は最低。ありえない！捨てたい！
でも今はこういう実験をしてるのです、ハカセ。

BTW,U will see this man again.
I have decided to paint him 5 more...
About the story with him,I'll write next time:)

ところで、この男の子はまた登場します。
彼をあと5枚くらい描こうとおもってる。
彼との出会いの話は、また今度…。

YUKO

Shitomi Sings...

Shitomi was a Jazz singer,but I don't know she's still singing or not.
I heard she married. After that,I don't know about her.

When I met her last time,she said she gonna come to NY to sing a song.
I'm waiting for her.

To live as an artist is sometime very hard & tough for girls. So I am.
That's why mostly girls give up.
Our life was diverged but each life might be happy.
Just I don't wanna make a reason "because I'm a girl". I don't care.

I'm still painting.
I don't know my choice was correct. But I can say I'm happy now.


YUKO

Sunset.

Sunset/2004

I can't swim,but I like the sea.
This painting is somewhere just I pictured in my mind.

My friend who is a surfer told me,"If you saw scene from the sea,every perspective of sea gonna chenge."
I covinced what he said,even though I frightened water and the sea after all.

Just see,hear and feel it,I can satisfy.

わたしは泳げないけど、海はすき。
この絵はどこかの海をただおもい描いて描いた。

サーファーの友達が言うには、もし海からの景色を見たら違う絵が描けるよ。って。
海を愛してる彼の言葉に納得したけど、やっぱり水は怖い。

ただ眺めて、聴いて、感じる。
それだけでいいや。


YUKO

For my friend.

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This painting is for my friend's wedding party!

YUKO.

Swing!!!

Swing/2003.oil on canvas

At the time,I was really fascinated with London.
I don't know the reason. But I fell in love with London's atmosphere,moisture,and lights.
But,
I'm living in NY now.
Life doesn't always go just as I expect.

この絵を描いた頃、Londonが大好きだった。
理由はわからないけど、恋してた。
空気に、湿り気に、光に。
でも。
わたしは今NYに住んでる。Londonに移り住む気は、ない。
人生は予想とはうらはらに進むものなのね。


YUKO

Life.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　LIFE/2003.oil on canvas

I painted this when I was 22 years old.
In the old days.
It's my room in Tokyo.

I was a student,so I could paint at studio in school.
But I prefer to paint at this room.
I could calm,and I could imagin.

So my room's floor was dirty.

Music,books,drinks.

Everything as I wanted.
Many paintings were born in this room.

I didn't want to forget it,I painted this. I think.

22歳のときに描いた懐かしの作品。
自分の部屋。

わたしはおうち大好きっ子だった。
大学で描けばもっと広いスペースがあるのに、家のほうが集中できたし、落ち着けた。
たぶんお酒を飲みながら好き放題時間を選ばなかったからだとおもう。

この頃はものすごく個展を精力的にやってた時期で、この部屋からたくさん作品が生まれた。
初めて売れた作品もこの部屋で描いたもの。
そいうことを忘れたくなくて、この絵を描いたんだとおもう。

少しずつ昔の作品をアップしていきたいとおもいまふ。
Hav a happy Valentine's Day!!

YUKO

Relaxin' with cherry.

For my friend's wedding party.
Inspired by "Studio Tord Boontje".

When I make a artworks as a gift,I've never used oil painting.
It's makes me relax bcs there aren't my main work.
So I can enjoy make it genuinely like a play.

I hope he and his wife like it!!!

YUKO

Happy birthday!!

Today, I went to my friend's birthday party.

There were 2 birthday people.

I gave them my original birthday card.

This picture is "Cherry Blossom".

And this picture is a landscape from Staten Island ferry.

Young-Uh!

Samiye!

I hope they like my card..

YUKO