We’ve been busy here the last couple of months and now it’s show time for many of us this before the big summer holiday in August. Grab your calendar, analog or digital or both, and let’s mark when you can visit the following shows: Monday, July 9: (TONIGHT!) Canvas Talks organized by Nick West: https://www.facebook.com/events/479794202442901/?ti=iclContinue reading “July 2018 Art Byte Adventures!”
Author Archives: Studio Deanna
Cool off this month with wintery Snowfences by Lori Ono
As you are zipping around the city this sweltering summer month, cool off in Jiyugakoa’s unique Neighborhood & Coffee Starbucks location. For the month of July, Lori Ono‘s wintery image series, Snowfences, will be on display for you to enjoy. Snowfences is a series of photographs taken during a cold, snowy day in Idaho/Montana areaContinue reading “Cool off this month with wintery Snowfences by Lori Ono”
Caran d’Arche Boutique in Ginza, Tokyo
What a beautiful shop! The Caran d’Arche Boutique in Ginza, Tokyo has bright new art supplies, all perfectly organized, I had to go! My skills at using these kinds of supplies is still quite new but a friend sat at the materials testing bar and soaked it all in. Watch the short video of herContinue reading “Caran d’Arche Boutique in Ginza, Tokyo”
An Artist’s Day in Tokyo
Saturday Art Adventures in Tokyo with Spendy Pencil
Embroidery Designing
Embroidered (3) different colorways of an octopus design to decide which I prefer and found I love each equally so! As I decide my future plans for these flower holding octopuses, I finished another piece for a completely different series in which I am working. It’s a portrait of my fibroid; originally a photo fromContinue reading “Embroidery Designing”
Sketchbook Start
Broke open my new Midori Diary Sketchbook w/Storyboard sections on each page. Jumped right in with watercolor experiments from my friend Lori’s Art Cart of Awesome! 1. Kuretake Watercolor Pens: 2. Caran d’Arche – Watercolor Crayons 3. Watercolor Pencils I preferred the watercolor crayons as they are small, portable, and had better solubility than theContinue reading “Sketchbook Start”
That New Notebook Feeling
My friends and I felt the strong pull from the sketchbook corner at the Ikebukuro Tokyou Hands and found ourselves caught. Here I was introduced to Midori Diary Paper, designed and made here in Japan. Comes in such a lovely cream color and they are bound in such a way as allow each page toContinue reading “That New Notebook Feeling”