High Tide

 High Tide

29"x30"  oil on canvas

4/9/21

Between brain and heart, making a painting is always a dilemma. Simple decision making of choosing colors I often torn apart between logic and intuition. My little brain tells me one color yet my heart tells me the other to paint. Nowadays I heavily rely on my intuition, I feel more comfortable and freer than ever before. One more interesting that I finding out is painting more with my intuition is so unpredictable as I understand there is no way to see the end result in advance. Most of the time I end up with piece that I haven't thought about. Making a painting that I never seen before is hard yet it is so much exciting as if I'm unfolding a mystery right in front of my eyes.

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#hightide #pire #restaurant #bar #travel #beachtown #westcoast #beachfront #pch

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Shack On The River

 Shack On The River

oil on canvas  30"x29"

3/26/21

I always envy people who enjoy drinking at any occasions, as for me my body can't tolerate any kind of alcohols, sadly it runs in my family. I wish that I can be a little bit tipsy every once in a while so the world might appear a bit differently. Where I came from if you can't drink at any occasions specially afterwork get together you were automatically an outskirt, outsider, alien, murahachibu( in another words something like you don't have any bars on your phone.) and lists goes on. But then again over the years I learned how to enjoy at those parties by drinking just coffee as long as being there with my friends. They all knew that they can count on me even they got smashed, wasted and wrecked. I was always the designated driver, they needed me after all!  

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#shack #bar #restaurant #riverfront #riverside #datenight #travel #rustic

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Stone City 5

 Stone City 5

28.5"x31"  oil on canvas

3/13/21

Loving Everyday by Painting! 

Wondering about all the paintings which I made in the past, some of them are embarrassing to show or every once in a while I feel pretty happy about how they feel. Looking at them some of them made me thinking.... What was I thinking.....!  Good or bad, adventure goes on and looking forward painting more ideas as there's no end to it. 

#stonecity #travel #cityscape #ethereal  #dream #landscape

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Stone City 3

 Stone City 3

28.5"x30.5" oil on canvas

2/27/21

I was interested in shapes and textures so put my attention making shapes that I feel comfortable with, more like weaving a tapestry hoping it would be decorative. Because I painted in high key street lights turned into almost like flowers, this I din't expected but I can live with that. This painting ended up very quiet and subtle, it doesn't have a bang yet in a long run I can live with it better I think.

#stonecity #travel #ethereal #cityscape #landscape 

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Stone City 2

Stone City 2

40"x47" oil on canvas

1/22/21

I would like to invite you to how you can enjoy this painting. To begin with, you just pick a spot where you can start strolling this stone city. As you see and experience this city like a maze and please get lost in it along the way enjoying your personal reaction from textures, colors and shapes. Let your imagination fly so you might feel a sense of living from each household, furthermore you might find a family enjoying their evening stroll or a dog in a alley way wagging his tail. Please enjoy your personal visual voyage along the twisted and turned alleys.

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#stonecity #cityscape #landscape #travel #stroll #ehereal #abstract #citylights #hillside

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Stone City

 

     Stone City

     28.5"x30.5" oil on canvas

12/28/20

I had such a strange experience with this painting. To be honest I don't have much of memory how I finished this piece, at the same time I don't recall any of my struggle making decision regarding designing, colors, textures and shapes. Everything went nice and smooth, by the time I turned around this painting was finished, I mean I got the result that I hoped for. I always think result is the everything no matter how hard or how long I worked for it if result is not what I wanted it doesn't mean much. I was wondering why I don't have much of memory of the time I spent, only thing I remember was something like I was unconscious while I was moving brushes. My guess is that I might have experienced what happens when I paint intuitively. 

#stonecity #travel #ethereal #intuitive #cityscape #landscape #homesweethome

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By Tomorrow Where Will You Be Cruising Flight740

 

By Tomorrow Where Will You Be Cruising Flight740

29"x30.5"  oil on canvas

11/21/2020

I would like to share with you all about my flight experience last May 2019. My trip started from Los Angeles to Osaka Japan. I usually I take west bound but this time I took east bound as it took me more than 37 hours, I know it sounds crazy but I wanted be up in the air as long as possible, even I embraced the long line of TSA at the LAX and even planned that I will have enough time at the airside once I passed the passport control, I was already in the airside more than 3 hours prior to my departure. Wondering around like a sleep walker, I was already on  could 9. Flight experience was way more better than I expected, seat was comfortable as I'm such a small guy, talking about Food, I had the best inflight dinner ever! The best experience of this flight from LAX to DOH was as I was stumbling down the aisle to the back of the plane where eight of flight attendants were congregating on their break and somehow I was start mingling with them, I still can't remember why this happened but I spent best next 20 minuets of a pow wow up in the air at the back end of the aircraft and in front of the bathrooms. So this 16 hours of my flight went so fast and comfortable. I won't mention about rest of this trip to Osaka as there were so many mishaps to tell so I would like to share with you at some other time.

 

#travel #flightattendant #cabincrew #internationalflight #stewardess #lax #doh #airways #layover #airport #airtravel #airside #inflightmeal

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