Pacific Coast Highway

     Pacific Coast Highway

     19.5"x24"

     oil on canvas

Happy Holidays everyone-Friends Families and Supporters!!

This is my last upload for this year and hope you’ll enjoy the piece. Translating a landscape into shapes, colors and textures I have my freedom to decide how all the elements would like to be felt since I’m painting from my memory. For me each shapes, colors and textures  like to be laid down with certain brush strokes and I believe each strokes carry its own emotions. When I see my brush strokes out right colors and textures I go through a certain emotional experience getting high all by myself. As long as I feel right then the painting is on the right track. After all, the painting is not a landscape of a scenery anymore it’s more like a landscape of my emotional landscape or mapping. If all the elements play nice together as a whole I think the painting is done. I have enjoyed making a lots of paintings this year and hope to keep making another optical adventures so see you next year!

#pch #loveoflife #ethereal #losangeles #westcoast #sunset #dusk #beachtown #memory #whimsical #quaint #sensations

#intimate #landscape #oilpainting #coastline #california #pacificcoasthighway

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Blue Warehouse

     Blue Warehouse

     19"x24", oil on canvas

After 20 some years later I still had this image of the warehouse I stumble upon when I was walking around in the beach town. When I was standing in front of this blue warehouse I felt such a wonderful sensation of bliss. We every once in a while experience this unexplainable  sensation of happiness with no reason, lucky me, was this color of blue against mauve color of evening light or just evening air of the place I don't know but one thing for sure I was standing there enjoying the sensation of satisfaction being alive. To recaptured the moment I went back to the spot but unfortunately the warehouse wasn't there anymore due to new development or something, sad but can't stop the change of time. So I thought may be I can capture the sensation through my painting and painting from my memory and I only remembered only what was important for my painting like blue warehouse which actually had a lots of colors in it, transparent pink in the background and best of all the blue color of the air, soft lights hitting the side walk and oh I put a puppy for the scale. I needed lots of softness and brush strokes to balance out against lots of straight shapes in the picture. Painting from memory helps filter out unnecessary details remembering only essentials.



#California #light #sunset #moment #bliss #loveoflife #ethereal #beachtown #memory #puppy #newportbeach #evening #dusk #warehouse #oilpainting #sensations #intimate #French #Bonnard #quaint #whimsical #memory

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The Dream

     The Dream

     17.5"x17.5" oil on canvas

When I woke up in the morning I still remembered the dream I had. I was flying or more like floating over a river in the evening. The best thing I felt so nice was I was in the middle of bridge lights. It was so fuzzy and warm. Didn't want to wake up. 

 #bridge #river #lights #dream #pont #eveningstroll #nightwalk #intimate #sensations #French #Bonnard #quaint #whimsical #memory 

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Metro Station

     Metro Station

     17.5"x18"

     oil on canvas

I love to watch people passing by at the end of Metro Link station. I enjoy the energy of people just keep hustling and bustling. Where are they going or coming from...another day at the station. 

#California, #oilpainting, #beachtown , #metrostation, #metrolink, #urbantransportation, #urbanlife, #tram, #metrotrain, #commutertrain, #commuterrail #intimate #sensations #French #Bonnard #quaint #whimsical #memory

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By Tomorrow Where Will You Be Landing

     By Tomorrow Where Will You Be Landing

     15"x17"

     oil on canvas

     I was really curious about light quality in this painting. The light seems surreal but it turned out to be  very comforting. I didn't plan the colors at the beginning but followed how and what I feel along the course of this painting now I have to figure out how did I do it. Colors are still very mysterious and unpredictable to me when I work on each paintings but one thing for sure that each painting offers opportunities to come up with its own special color combinations.


     #stewardess #flightattendant #cabinattendant #travel #aviation #airport #LAX #California
     #intimate #sensations #French #Bonnard #quaint #whimsical #memory

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The Beach

     The Beach

     15"x17"

     oil on canvas


     #beachtown #travel #beaches #California #SantaMonica #Malibu #cafe

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Up Close and Personal

     Up Close and Personal

     15"x17"

     oil on canvas

I love the smell of jet fuel at the airport. Somehow it triggers my anticipation of up coming trip. Taxing from tarmac to runway the engines start come alive then V1, Rotate and off we go! Airborne!

 

     #travel #aviation #flight #jetengine #airport#tarmac #pushback #groundcrew

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LAX 817

     LAX 817

     15"x17"

     oil on canvas

My very first overseas flight was summer of 1977. I was lucky to be able to fly with PAN AM from Tokyo to San Francisco, flight was so awesome there weren't many passengers back then almost I had whole cabin of 747 and flight attendants all to myself. It was a flight of life time. No matter wherever we fly we can't do without hardworking flight attendants. So big thank you for all the flight attendants wherever you are flying today.


     #travel #LAX #airport #flight attendant #cabin attendant #stewardess #California

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Downtown Glass Tower

     Downtown Glass Tower

     15"x17"

     oil on canvas

     #Downtown  #metro #cityscape #skyscraper

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Dusk

Dusk

27.5"x41"

oil on canvas

At the end of a day there is a magical moment before a evening starts, I can hardly hear the sound of waves and even the wind gets soft and quiet. The sands under my feet is still warm from the day feels somehow comforting. Some people doesn't want to go home quite yet like myself.

#beach #summer #SantaMonica #California #dusk #beachvolleyball

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Track #8

Track #8

10"x14"

watercolor

I'm so use to driving wherever I go but the other day I took a train to downtown for a change. It reminded me when I was living in Japan. Not like US Japanese cities were developed around train stations so I learned, practically I can go anywhere like from door to door over there. Somehow it was comforting to see so many people around me on the trains and stations.

#station #downtown #commutertrain # California

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St.Dominic's

St.Dominics

10"x14"

watercolor

I never tired of painting St.Dominic's church in Macau. East meets West the Portuguese pavement creates such a exotic ambiance that I love. I enjoy the color of the church specially in the summer night, it's gorgeous glowing in the dark almost as if it is a jewel in the East.

#Macau #travel #church #SenadoSquare

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Manhattan Beach

Manhattan Beach

10"x14", watercolor

I love to explore beach towns. There are so many near Los Angeles alone and every beach has it's own charm. Park my car and start walking any direction I feel like and all of your 5 senses are full alert. Just spending all afternoon gives me such a lift. Time well spent, oh of course I won't forget to check how the sands feel like under my feet.

#California #beachtown #pire #LosAngeles

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Balboa Island

Balboa Island

10"x14" watercolor

There are some images you won't forget rest of your life. I stopped by the pier at Balboa Island Newport Beach before I heading home in Los Angelese. I was so lucky to be in the sunset for a few minutes, I went back again and again to see the sunset but I had no luck to see the one I saw that particular evening so I painted the sunset that I thought I saw.

10"x14", watercolor

#California #pier #beach #sunset

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