This year, I decided to dress up as the famous Japonica kanji review notebook. I took a few hours this weekend to paint the cover sign. 

This is the underpainting. I used Sakura Acrylic Color as the primary medium. I used water to make a wash.

Next layers. 

Building up more layers. 

Overall view. I started making the back side, but I ran out of time this weekend. Maybe I can finish it in time for the Halloween Party! 

Finally adding the vein details of the leaves. 

The mostly finished version! I had to skip a lot of details in order to have something to present this week. I could easily spend hours perfecting the realism of the painting. 

The kids responded well, and someone said in office this is the scariest costume of all. I’ll bet that kanji drills are not fun! Hope to see all of you at the Halloween party!

今日１０月２３日はモルの日

北米の科学者が提唱したのが始まりで１０月２３日のam6:02～pm6:02

までをモルの日としたそうです。

モルは物質量の単位で１モル＝６．０２×１０の23乗の分子や原子などを

含む粒子の物質量

６．０２　１０・２３

として時間と日付に見立てたことで記念日になったようです。

堅い話になりましたが実は二十四節気・霜降りの時季で今日は

お芋ほりの日でもあります。

そしてあのおいしい、じゃがりこの日でもある。

今日という一日をいろいろな人が違う思いで味わっていると思うと興味深いと思いました。

誰かの誕生日や、結婚記念日かもしれませんね！

ある特定の数字を見た時その人にとって特別な意味を持つ。

そんなことが楽しいです。

皆さんにとって意味のある数字は何ですか。そしてそれはなぜですか。

Hello! Today I’d like to share something that I drew.

I have no inktober entries at all but I made this skull drawing to study it. Did you know that if you want to be a good artist, you have to study anatomy first? When I was in art school, we studied real human skeletons to master the human figure.

They were scary at first but we got used to it. 

Fish & Chips フィッシュアンドチップスと言えば、イギリスを代表する料理で、タラなどの白身魚のフライに、棒状のポテトフライを添えたものです。「chips」はアメリカでは、ポテトチップス、イギリスではフライドポテト。アメリカでフライドポテトは、French friesだからこっとややこしいですね。アメリカもレストランでは、Fish & chips。どこもそんなには変わらない味なので、メニューに困った時はぜひ！！

I’m Hello!s’ newest teacher and have only been living in Japan for about 2 months now but I’m having a great time here so far. I didn’t know much about this area before I moved. I recently visited Sekigahara and found it fascinating to learn about the importance that the battle of Sekigahara played in Japanese history. I explored the area and visited many sites that were key to the battle. It’s so cool to me that I live in a place where so much history occurred. I’m excited to keep traveling and learning more about my new home of Japan!

-Aaron