Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

I finished a new large #watercolour #drawing. It's probably the most detailed drawing I ever made.

The main figure in the drawing is based on a picture I took at the Gion Matsuri in #Kyoto some years ago. It is a dancer performing the old Japanese court dance "Ran-Ryo-O".

I used Derwent Inktense and Conté Aquaralle pencils as well as watercolour paint (various brands). The paper is Arches 56cmx76cm 300g/m2 rough watercolour paper.

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I finished my #drawing, on the last day of my holidays! It's the first time I've done such a large #watercolour (50cmx70cm). It's based on a picture I took of a lotus in a pond in a temple (萬福寺) near #Kyoto. #art #mastoartDetail of the lotus pond watercolour

#introductions

I'm Wim, in Glasgow (Scotland).
I like #photography, #reading, #art, #veggie cooking and #japan (#日本語).

I do research on #compilers, #languages and runtimes (e.g. #OpenCL) for #FPGAs, #GPUs and #manycores.

I program in #Perl, #Haskell, #Fortran, #C++,#Python.

@wim_v12e is my main account, I use it mostly for the non-technical stuff. The computer stuff usually goes on @wim_v12e.

I finished my #drawing. It's based on a picture of a scene from the Gion Matsuri that I took in Kyoto last summer. I used #watercolour pencils, acrylic watercolour paint and bistre. #art

The final one was a bit tricky to take, esp. with a mobile. I didn't want to lie flat in the water, so I could not check the shot. The horizon was a bit tilted, I corrected it in Darktable.

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The mountains in the distance are on the Isle of Arran, about 25 km away.
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Kind of minimal isn't it? Desaturated colours, hardly any patterns. And yet beautiful, I think. I love the sea.

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Just a little later, and roughly in the same direction. Besides the quality of the light, I like the reflection of the sun on the waves.

This was taken with a mobile, no processing whatsoever.

Again in portrait format.
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It was freezing cold at the seaside but there was a beautiful silvery light.

This seascape is in portrait ^_^
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Sorry, had to repost, forgot the alt text.

William Forsyth (1737 – 1804) was a Scottish botanist. #Forsythia is named in his honour.

The flowers are not quite in focus, I guess the autofocus on my phone got confused by the branches. But the light is nice.
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They're waning but there are still some lovely #daffodils in the gardens.
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Interesting article on Joy Division in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/24/joy-division-this-searing-light-extract-ian-curtis-jon-savage