Illustration Contests

I moved back to Japan in July and have been submitting artworks and designs to the contests!! These are some of them.

The bunnies illustration is for "The Bunny Illustration Contest" and same as the dog one.

The last one is 3 characters for the organic market in Shimane prefecture.
left: Umi-piko (the sea character)
mid: Yama-piko (the mountain character)
right: Kawa-piko (the river character)

Hope I can get the first prize-!!

NOHO Artwalk

I submitted the drawing for the NOHO NY Artwalk. The opening reception will be next week on April 16th @ TD bank (666 Broadway on Bond street) at 6pm.

Many stores and restaurants in NOHO donated some money for the show, and they are doing some discounts! I guess more than 200 artists submitted the artworks, so it will be fun!

Hope I can see you all!

http://nohony.org/neighborhood/newsANDEvents/

I painted the mug for my mother's birthday at FAO on 5th ave.

They have all different pastel color paints, and I had so much fun!

This is the group art work for the show last month. Thank you so much for coming to the opening!

You can see the video of the opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Pw-qMsfJ0

Happy Mermen

I am having a charity art group show at Ouchi Gallery on March 24th. 14 artists made one big artwork, and this painting will be the bottom part.

Hope you can come!

www.zankandmars.com

Baby Bird Apartment

My Parents' 30th Wedding Anniversary

Mom and Dad,
Happy Wedding Anniversary!!!

My 1st Solo Exhibition

I'm going to have the exhibition from April 8th to 13th at Ouchi Gallery in Brooklyn Height.
If you have a chance, please come to the opening reception!
Hope to see you all!

Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary st. Suits 507
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Opening reception: April 8th from 7-10pm
http://www.zankandmars.com/

The dream of the elephant

This painting was for my first art show in Brooklyn in September with my friends.
http://www.letsgrowartshow.blogspot.com/
This painting was about the girl who has the dream of the elephant.

Pinguin

Pinguin found the star, and he is going home with his sleeping brother.

"Bird Castle"

This illustration was for my children's book "Pinguin". The weird birds live on the cloud.
medium: brown pen, acrylic inks, acrylics, and color pencils on the illustration board
size: 14"x 17"

Sketches of My 1st Children's Book

Pinguin takes his little brother to go back home while he is sleeping.











They meet a weird bird. The bird tells them something, but pinguin cannot understand what the bird says because she speaks different language. However, pinguin decides to follow her because the bird might know where the star is. They go to the bird castle in the sky, and they get the masks instead of the star. The birds are very nice to them, and his little brother loves the mask.




Pinguin's little brother worried about his older brother who goes to the journey alone. He secretly follows him.
They get lost in the bunnies forest, and little brother is still hidding.
Pinguin is so sad and looks at the picture of his family.






The story is about a little pink penguin, Pinguin, goes to find the star. He is in the library and studying how to find a star. His lunch is on his head.

This is a pen & ink drawing of a birdlady who is swimming in the lake.

This is a painting of a wall, and you can see a bunny is enjoying fishing.












In the Metropolitan Museum, there are so many Egyptian statues, mummies, and even a temple... so I make a picture that the Egyptian ship takes part of Manhattan buildings from the sea port in NY.









Do you know the monogamouse? When they get merried, they never divorce, and even if the wife dies, the husband never looks for another wife!















Weird creatures in the weird forest.
It is a very peaceful place to live....












It is a pen & ink drawing of model.

















This is also a drawing of model.















This weird ladyfish is a messenger.










This is again the drawing of model.















40 minuits oil painting of a model.
He didn't move! he didn't blink!














A girl is in the submarine and looking at the fish. The fish represents her dream. Something she wants is in front of her, but it is hard to get it. She is trying to get closer to her dream.