Aaaawww! I love this illustration and the poem which is most fitting and beautiful! I discovered, I can't do etegami. I am too stiff and too rigid! :( Still trying. First it has to be a mental thing, for me. :) Hope you are well. Tsup!
Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.
Very true - and those stars must be hard to comb out!
ReplyDeletevery funny, Tony. ;p
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ReplyDeleteAaaawww! I love this illustration and the poem which is most fitting and beautiful! I discovered, I can't do etegami. I am too stiff and too rigid! :( Still trying. First it has to be a mental thing, for me. :) Hope you are well. Tsup!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a sweet inspiration...
ReplyDeleteSoooooo Cool!
ReplyDeleteYou always think of the best illustrations to accompany quotes and such!
ReplyDeleteLove this! :)
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely picture!
ReplyDeleteNever heard about etegami before, it's beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteFab idea! :)
ReplyDeleteThat quotation is perfection, & the I love the expression of the illustration. (As well as the starry locks of course!)
ReplyDeleteThis one is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI would love to get this in the mail! Great post.
ReplyDeleteLove. :) In Spanish we have a saying, cada cabeza es un mundo (every head is a world, literally). This reminds me of that.
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