Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Demo by Fujie Yamaguchi Moses 12/13/11

She works from life. Will repeat the same subject manner several times to thoroughly know it. One summer she painted irises. Does not recommend painting from photos.

Uses winsor newton watercolors, bamboo pen, hake brush, Japanese round brush, daniel smith kolinski sable brushes. She had us try the brush. Very nice. She mixes up paint fresh each time. Uses 3 dishes of water to keep colors clear. She mixes colors in shallow trays that she got many years ago from Scientific American. Told us always to wet brush before touching pigment.

Uses Japanese wash paper and 140 arches paper on pad. In her demo she used about 11x14 pad?

Here is a link to more information about her and her art:
  • http://www.mhaaa.org/japan08/artists/moses.html