ShizuokaGirl: Flowers for Japan

There is a short train line in Japan that needed a shot in the arm to keep it running.

Someone came up with this idea to have a whole train dedicated to etegami.

I decided to enter two etegami and was thrilled to see my paintings on the train!

Way up in the right hand corner..

My entries were these. On the left, the flame lily flower.

Translation " the flame lily: burning like a fire"

On the right, the heliconia: "Unusual. Beautiful. The heliconia flower"

Another etegami art call comes from Fukushima. In the wake of the tsunami disaster,

artists are called upon to paint flowers to share with the community.

These were Texas flowers I painted in 2017

The pink dogwood

The Texas bluebonnet, of course!

For this one, I painted the flowers on white and cut them out and

pasted them on the tan etegami postcard.

A good way to make large white objects stand out!

Black tulip magnolia are actually deep purple. Absolutely stunning

Another dogwood：“Refreshing white color"

For 2018, I thought the flowers needed something extra: Animals.

But having gotten no encouragement or word back from the committee,

I'm not so sure it's what they wanted. Hmm.

"The fragrance of a flower brings peace to the soul"

This cutie pie frog peeking out of a tulip.

It's a play on words "kaeru ga mieru". I can see a frog!

In smaller letters, the words of hide and seek:

"Are you ready?

"Not yet!"

This is one of my favorites. The frog is clinging to an anthirium flower.

He says "I'm OK if I'm alone as long as I have a flower"

One of my friends pointed out it looks very phallic.

Ha Ha Ha

I sure think that fuchsia look like dancers!!!

ShizuokaGirl