The Ikitsuki Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. View of the West Sea from Nagase-nana, Ikitsuki Island. (Sketch on site) Oil crayon (oil pastel) on watercolor paper The original drawing method (KOOSAIHO) uses nine colors of oil crayon (oil pastel), adding white to the eight colors of the rainbow (rainbow color + red-purple). The artist rubs one color on the belly of the finger, overlaps the colors in a unique order, smashes them with oil, rubs, and scrapes to create overlaps of colors and to approach the deep colors of the natural world. The red bridge that crosses the northernmost point of Nagasaki Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan, is the Hirado Bridge. The Ikitsuki Island is across the sky-blue bridge that comes into view when crossing the Hirado Island. I fell in love with the nature of this Ikitsuki Island and am currently in the process of opening a gallery in the northernmost part of the island (2024.9). All of his works are one-of-a-kind. The impression changes depending on the place (light source) where you look at them due to the layering effect of rainbow colors.
