This open call for the Mills pond Gallery is about the beauty of the community. I chose the three paintings above and submitted them. These paintings were painted in watercolor. They were painted in a more relaxed and free form, completely different from my previous style. The intention was to simply express nature as we feel it, without being bound by any results or evaluations, through watercolor.

​So I think I can do a lot of work these days. I paint more quickly than before. And I practice expressing the best scenes with watercolors within a limited time.

​This task is very meaningful when painting with watercolors. Because if you paint with watercolors without time constraints, you will keep adding and pursuing perfection. If you do that, you will not be able to fully feel the freedom and beauty of chance that only watercolors have. This year, I will deeply study how to express things through the patterns of chance that watercolors create.

​This is also fundamentally the same as oriental painting. The more I paint with watercolors, the more I find that watercolors are very similar to the techniques and philosophy of oriental painting. I try to remember the techniques of oriental painting that express the deep beauty of objects through the depth of water seeping in and paint.

​I received orchids as a gift from my best friend. The beautiful white flowers bring me great joy. I wanted to capture this moment forever, so I painted them with watercolors. Then I will paint them again as a small postcard to convey my gratitude message to her.

Below is a small postcard-sized watercolor painting. Postcards are a great way to convey your feelings. I plan to send this postcard to the person who will receive a gift more beautiful than these flowers.

​The way to express the beautiful nature around you easily and quickly is to use watercolors. It is to express nature by adding colors to the spread of water on paper and creating patterns that are created accidentally without me having to paint or paint everything. This is the part where I think watercolors resemble nature. Just like water droplets fall from leaves and draw a circle in the shape of a crown, creating a beautiful landscape in a pond. Watercolors make this possible. That is why I love watercolors and want to experience everything about watercolors.

​I love the speed of watercolor. I actually started painting with acrylics for 10 years. I liked the liveliness of the brush tip dipped in acrylic and the brush strokes. I wanted to draw the energy inside the object. However, I feel like fate led me to watercolors. Two years ago, I was introduced to watercolors through the Night Heron Watercolor Artist Meeting. Then I started studying watercolors in earnest. Since then, watercolors have become my favorite medium. Watercolors make me reflect on myself. I wonder if I couldn’t stand the flow of things by chance, or if I was greedy and tried to create a more perfect shape by constantly adding layers. As I paint with watercolors, I am discovering the aesthetic of being empty and leaving it alone. People may feel perfect when they see more complex, elaborate, and photographic paintings. However, I have come to realize that leaving it as it is, like watercolors, is much more effective for expressing nature. I think my research on watercolors will continue in the future.

If you want to make drawing easy and fun, you have to empty out a lot and have fun.