The location is Jug Handle Beach on Mendocino Coast.

525. Yarrow by the Beach Oil painting by Mariko Irie

I love Jug handle Beach. It’s a small beach. When I go there, even foggy day, there are people. But it’s so tranquil environment. I don’t know what it is.

I received this e-mail from Ellen, who purchased “What is the Next” from dailypaintworks.com.

445. What is the Next ? Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

I’m so happy to hear from her and love to share with you.

Dear Mariko,

What a lovely article and what perfect timing! I bought your painting What is the next. I wrote to you in February about using it for our poster/program for our art show in July.  We did use it for our local Bath County Art Show poster and program cover. The show opened July 21 and closes July 29th.

Everyone that has attended the show has raved about the cover artwork. We printed 550 programs so now your work is in 550 homes!  I also displayed the original painting in a large gold frame on a table at the entrance with your bio and website. When the show closes July 29th. I will be sure and send you a copy. We have 260 artists and 704 pieces of art in the show and we have so far had a very successful show.

You are definitely right about what makes you happiest. I definitely feel connected to you through the painting What is the next. I smile every time I see it!

Thank you for sending the article. I love the painting Shoes also.

Sincerely,

Ellen Collins

Thank you Ellen, dailypaintworks.com.

And thank you who stopped by my blog.

This is other painting of May, my friend’s cat.

521. Talking to Ebisu Oil painting by Mariko Irie

I don’t know if the sculpture is Ebisu.

Ebisu is one of the seven Gods of Fortune. He is always laughing and has a big belly just like this sculpture.

It’s good to talk with him. He gives you happiness, luck and health.

May is doing right thing.

This is my friends’ cat May.

I stayed at my friends’ for one week, then I got know her.

She is an interesting cat. Yes, all cats have different nature.

She has an attitude.

It was drizzling day, so I decided to stay inside and paint. There were beautiful Rhododendrons in a vase by the dinning table.

So I decided to paint on the dinning table. I started to prepare, May came and climbed on the table. I told her “I’m going to paint. Get down.” She ignored me. Then I shouted “Get Down!” She got down from the table, hissed me and left.

I finished painting and clean up the table. Then she came to me and purred.

520. Cat on Windowsill Oil painting by Mariko Irie

After I painted this painting, it remind me women in Japanese Ukiyo-e. May is sitting on the windowsill. The pose is just like a woman is posing elegant and alluring in natural manner.

The location is South of Mackerricher State Park.

516. Blooming Beach Oil painting by Mariko Irie

White sound, white and pink flowers, spring green on the ground, soft blue sky and ocean. Purple shadows. Why not?

I played on surface, scratching, putting more paint or taking off paint to make texture. It became just right, then I finished and signed.

I’d like to announce that I got an interview by www.dailypaintworks.com. Welcome to http://dpwnews.blogspot.com/ to see the interview. Jennifer Newcomb Marine is the editor and writer of the interview. She did excellent work. I’m so pleased. I hope that you enjoy it as well.

You may win my painting “Sunny Sunset Cliff”

To enter to win Mariko Irie’s painting, Sunny Sunset Cliff, go to DailyPaintworks.com and click on the Spotlight Giveaway button in the top-left corner of the website.

During answering questions of the interview, I felt how I’m happy being an artist.

Then I remember this painting “Opening of Happiness”

361. Opening of Happiness Oil painting by Mariko Irie

You may read my blog https://blog.mariko-irie.com/2011/04/openning-of-happiness/, I wrote that right after I painted the painting.

Now I’m dreaming to live in an organic farmland,

If somebody has one with an empty barn, please let me know.

Have you ever watched a movie “Miss Potter”?

The story of Beatrix Potter, the author and illustrator of the beloved and best-selling children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”.

According to the movie, she made fortune from the tiny books sales, and then she bought farmlands. She preserved the nature and make into working farms.

Have a beautiful life!

I like this scene. I painted same scene on square format before. Now I wanted to paint on long rectangular format.

917. Seagulls on Headlands Oil painting by Mariko Irie

I’m very satisfied with this painting. It looks like old Japanese composition and subject matter as well.

I hope that you like it too.

I love to hear from you.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

This field is in Mendocino Village CA.

There are Eucalyptus trees and it’s surround by old houses, which are over one hundred years old.

The building behind Eucalyptus trees is Mendocino Presbyterian Church, which is built in 1867-1868. It is a very charming building. I painted several landscape of Mendocino including this building.

514. Eucalyptus Field Oil painting by Mariko Irie

It was last spring, wild flowers are blooming, and Eucalyptus leaves are sparkling by the sun.

This bridge is over the Ten Mile River. The river meets Ocean there.

And the north end of Mackerricker State Park is this bridge.

According to Wikipedia:

An 1861 story in Harper’s Monthly includes a passage recounting the crossing of Ten Mile River: “We found the crossing a little dangerous on account of the tide, which sometimes renders it impassible for several hours, except by swimming. With some plunging, spurring, and kicking, the opposite side was gained in due time”.^[8] Later, the river was spanned near its mouth by a bridge on California State Route 1, north of the community of Inglenook. A concrete beam bridge replaced an older wooden deck truss bridge in 1954.^[9][10] After studies found that the 1954 bridge was insufficiently earthquake-safe,^[11] a new concrete box girder bridge on Highway 1 was constructed in 2009.

When they had Deck Truss Bridge, the scene was completely different from this bridge now. I think that it was much romantic scene.

514. Ten Mile Bridge Oil painting by Mariko Irie

I like this painting very much, because the composition is very successful. Dynamic clouds are crossing and the curve of the Bridge is dividing the river. There is my friend’s on the headlands.

This location is at South of Mackerricher State Park, North end of City limit of Fort Bragg.

513. Vulture by the Beach Oil painting by Mariko Irie

There are old industrial buildings far a way and a vulture is sitting on a old fence post.

It’s a very fascinating view.