Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

This is a set of portraits based on a scene from the 2015 movie 海街 diary (umimachi diary), "Our little sister" in English, by Hirokazu Kore-Eda. They are the Kōda sisters, Sachi (white yukata with blue flowers), Yoshino (ginkgo leaf pattern yukata), and Chika (blue yukata); and Suzu (white yukata with blue and pink).

I used Conté pencils, Faber-Castell Graphite Aquarelle and Derwent Inktense on Arches 300 g/m² rough watercolour paper, 56 cm x 38 cm.

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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

I kept the best one for last, I think this turned out really well.
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#blossoms

Some beautiful #blossoms in afternoon light at the walled garden of Gartnavel Hospital.
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I love anemones
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The hawthorn leaves are opening
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#nature

Still plenty of daffodils
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I made a quick pencil and ink #drawing of some #flowers. It is one in a series, I will maybe tell the story behind it some other time.

Chinese ink made using an inkstick and inkstone, on watercolour paper, A5 format.

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I wrote a blog post about this series of portraits, with some background about the scene from movie, the manga, and the drawing process.
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https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/umimachi-diary/

And another unusual #cloud formation, with the Campsie Fells in the background.
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Dramatic #clouds over Glasgow.
(portrait format)
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