Thursday, May 3, 2012

condiments for conversation

soy sauce

honeycomb

jam
I mixed sparkly gansai paints with ordinary gansai to produce a luminescent effect that doesn’t show very well in the scanned version. The actual etegami have a soft sparkle.
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15 comments:

  1. SadamiMay 4, 2012 at 6:04 AM

    ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ·.•*•♫°•♫·.•ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ !!

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  2. Else M TennessenMay 4, 2012 at 8:42 AM

    Debbie, I truly love these. ESpecially the honeycomb. And those verses are SO true!

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  3. AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    Pretty sparkles! I can particularly see them on the first and last pictures. I'm sure they're even prettier in person.

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  4. Midori YoshinoMay 4, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    がんさいは、使ったことがないのよ。
    今年の夏日本に帰ったとき買うつもりなので、とてもたのしみ。
    色がきれいよね。
    顔彩、、って、漢字であってます？
    日本人がきくのはへんですが。

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  5. Elizabeth Rose StantonMay 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM

    Oh these are WONDERFUL!! LOVE LOVE them!!!!!

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  6. MargieMay 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM

    I love these Debbie, and was going to ask you how you achieved the look in the first one before I even saw the rest. Thanks for saying how you did that. Awesome effect.

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  7. Patricia Ryan MadsonMay 5, 2012 at 10:20 AM

    Dazzling and fun! And thanks for being our faithful translator.

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  8. SadamiMay 6, 2012 at 4:01 AM

    Hi, Debbie,
    Excuse me, but I thought you usually used transparent watercolour. No you did not?? You just use "gansi"? Wow, amazing. Once, my friend, a Japanese painter used gansai and showed me the paints. Are they a bit similar to gouache? (but your beautiful work looks like transparent watercolour one.)
    Kind regards, Sadami

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    1. dosankodebbieMay 6, 2012 at 5:15 AM

      I use only gansai for my etegami. It never occurred to me to use watercolors. In my mind watercolors and washi don't belong together, but I guess that's just silly prejudice. I don't know what gouache is, so I have no idea whether they are similar to gansai or not.

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  9. ThérèseMay 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM

    I like the last one very much with the words!

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  10. Marie WMay 7, 2012 at 3:42 AM

    Another great, great series! And oh, thank you so much for the onion etegami card, I love it!!

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  11. Cindy D.May 7, 2012 at 4:50 AM

    Beautiful! Particularly the honeycomb - love the composition of that one. Love the jam one. Love the salt one. Oh geez, why do I bother picking a favorite!

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  12. Skybridge StudiosMay 7, 2012 at 6:29 AM

    Oh so wonderful!

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  13. AnonymousMay 16, 2012 at 4:18 PM

    These are so elegant, and I can easily imagine the sparkle!

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  14. Sarah MellingJune 4, 2012 at 9:25 PM

    This is a gorgeous series!!

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