“728. Orangey Rocks” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location was at Jug Handle Beach CA.

Afternoon sun shined the bank and rocks. That made the orange color brighter.

Ocean was quiet and waves were coming and going.

How peaceful it was.

I hope that you had a good Xmas Day.

It was sunny day in Santa Rosa yesterday.

I went to morning walk. Air was little cold, especially in a shade. But in the sunny spots, it was nice warm.

I gathered Sunray in my body. What a nice feeling.

“731. Sunny Van Damme Beach” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location was Van Damme Beach CA.

Walking at sunny beach is wonderful thing to do, isn’t it?

“729. Warm Sunset” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location is Jug Handle Beach CA.

This is one of my favor beaches.

I love these colors and lights. They make me happy.

Just like my favor Xmas Eve:

Silent night, Holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Goodnight everyone.

Merry Xmas.

This location is Portuguese Beach in Mendocino village CA.

We used to live in this small, old, charming village when my sons were Preschool and Grammar school students.

This village has everything we need: two regular markets, one organic food market, hardware store, gas station, preschool, Middle school (is other side of the Hi-way), high-school, Video store, Art Center, Galleries, Library, good book stores, good bakeries, good restaurants, nice outfit stores, Music store, Toy stores, what else do we need?

“726. Portuguese Beach” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

Yes, beautiful beaches are surrounded this village.

This is one of them. When we went there, always there were some children. So they played together.

A lot of loft woods are at this beach. We built something with these. Chasing waves, chasing each other, buried body in sand on an on.

We have a lot of nice memories on this beach

“724. Road at Rice Fields” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location was in Hakusyu, Japan.

After harvesting time is over, rice fields are resting.

Along the road, weeds are shinning autumn colors in morning sun.

When I was a child, all roads along the rice fields used to be so narrow just like trails. Now they are much wider. They didn’t use cars and tractors back then. Guess what they used to use carry thing or plow. Everything was done by all human’s power. They carry things on their back. They spade the field. That’s why along the field, there was no road, just trails.

I found photos of the YouTube “Japanese 100 Years Ago”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEe2d1scqBM

It’s only 100 years; our life has been changed a lot. Just think about a moment what has been changed.

We celebrated a lady’s 103 years old birthday a couple months ago at Finley Senior Center where I go to play Ping-Pong. She still plays cards, healthy so on.

That’s why I said, “It’s only 100 years.”

Wow!?

Other 100 years from now, what looks like?????

“706. Wildflowers at Navarro ” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location was by Navarro Ridge Road CA.

It was a cold day, I felt winter is coming.

And I started to think about springtime. So I chose to paint this springtime, wildflower season by ocean.

James M. Barrie who wrote “Peter Pan” says,

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

Exactly:)

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“707. Peeking through Trees” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

The location was at Jug Handle State Park CA.

I was strolling in trees in a foggy day. I saw the beach and waves. What a soothing time.

I love it, don’t you?

“699. Woman in Passion” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This one is third one, which I painted from same design.

First one was I drew with Sumi (Black ink) with brush on Arches rough watercolor paper in 2007. The image size was 11” x 11” It’s only line; still I wanted to show three-dimensional look. I named “Woman’s Back”.

It was sold to the professor of psychiatry. She loved the quality of the  lines and simplicity. I’m so pleased that she has sophisticated taste.

The second one: I didn’t paint. We had a group show, which theme was “Red”. I scan the black & white image of “Woman’s Back” and in a Photoshop program, drop red in the background.  So it is a Giclee print.

“233. Woman’s Back” Giclee Print by Mariko Irie

I love this design and I wanted to paint much bigger. I painted in Oil on 24” x 24” Gallery Wrapped Canvas in 2010. I named “Woman’s Back in Red”, and I showed the painting in my booth at the San Diego Art Walk. The painting attracted to a couple: the wife is a French. The husband  purchased the painting to surprise his wife as her birthday present.

“348. Woman’s Back in Red” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

A couple months ago, Tim invited me to join his group show “Nude”.

Some how I was interested in Modern Art. So I watched about Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in YouTube and red about them. What passionate Artists they were.

After all, sudden I wanted paint very simple design with Oil matiere/thick paint on 24” x 24” Gallery Wrapped Canvas. I picked the design of “Woman’s Back” again. When I was painting, I was not thinking anything else, but painting. It was conversation with paints.

I named this painting “Woman in passion”. After the paint was dried, I took to Tim. He displayed the painting in his window, and it was sold.

The lady owns business building in Fort Bragg purchased it. She must be passionate person. I love to meet her in person sometime soon.

Well all these paintings owners are women. What do you say?

Thank you for stopping by my blog.

Mariko

This location is Mendocino Headlands, CA.

“704. Headlands on Cloudy Day” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

Cloudy day has different faces.

Sometimes it makes me so boring and tiring. Sometimes it makes me focused to do something. Especially after many hot sunny days, it’s very soothing.

This kind of cloudy: clouds are dark and light, Light tries to peek out.

Makes a charming painting.

Don’t you think so?

I love Sunset. Before it’s dark, most and last colorful time of a day.

“703. Colorful Sunset” Oil painting by Mariko Irie

This location is at Van Damme Beach. The parking is in front of the beach. You can see the sunset from inside of a car. When it’s windy or cold day, it’s great to see the sunset from inside of nice warm car.   I don’t know how many times I parked there to enjoy sunset. I think this is one of the most colorful and peaceful sunsets there.