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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Fantasy oil painting “Mushrooms shelter”

Initial thoughts This starts with the mushrooms. I like the idea of putting two tiny mice under the mushrooms. They are hiding from the hunter, in this case, yes, the […]

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