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.

15 comments:

  1. ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ·.•*•♫°•♫·.•ʚ(ˆ◡ˆ)ɞ !!

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

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  3. 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. 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. Oh these are WONDERFUL!! LOVE LOVE them!!!!!

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

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  8. 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. 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. I like the last one very much with the words!

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

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

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