Fantasy oil painting “Bee house”

Initial thoughts The idea comes from Bug hotel. Although I am not a fan of bugs, I think this idea is cute and brilliant. So I made a house for bees. The house has no perfect straight-line. It looks crooked, unregulated. It is made of clay and wood pieces. The bee house only has windows, […]

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Fantasy oil painting “Leopard woman”

Background In 2002, animation version of <The Twelve Kingdoms> began to broadcast. At that time, I was not so interested in this story because the author, Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美) clearly borrowed almost entire mythology concept from ancient Chinese tales and history. The landscape, the names, the mystery creatures, the buildings and many many things are […]

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Fantasy oil painting “Owl messenger”

Initial thoughts I love to paint owl. I have ink drawing, gouache painting and oil painting owls. This time I want to challenge myself to paint an owl with its wings and body, not just a big face and partial body. I also want to put this owl into a story scene. Therefore I choose […]

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Fantasy oil painting “Checkerboard octopus”

Background As I mentioned in my post “Differences between Cuttlefish, Squid and Octopus“, both cuttlefish and octopus have excellent camouflage ability. Some experiments show that cuttlefish tries so hard to merge itself with a checkerboard surrounding pattern. I can see they are doing everything they can.🤣 So the idea comes as how about they actually […]

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