Tel Aviv Museum of Art

It's the Passover week here in Israel, and I took a day off to visit the Tel Aviv Museum of Art for the first time. During this holiday, all the admission is free, courtesy of Bank Hapoalim who is sponsoring the exhibitions, which I think is quite neat. It's a great opportunity for everyone to stop by at the museum and enjoy the art, and it was nice to see a lot of people out there.

The museum actually have respectable collection; it was great to see works of great artists like Magritte, Kandinsky, Max Ernst, and of course my favorite, Dali.

Tal Mazliah, the winner of 2009 Rappaport Prise, had an huge collection exhibited, and they were a lot of fun.

I've been hearing from people that they also have a glass museums in this area, which I could not check out today. I've heard great review, so I would definitely come back and check it out as soon as I get the chance.

If you get a chance, I recommend the trip to Tel Aviv Museum, for a quiet tour to enjoy art.

Tibetan Folk Tales

I love eastern mythology, and lately I've been captivated by Tibetan folk tales. It's filled with exciting fantasy tales, and it has such a kind philosophy underneath. I'm getting lots of ideas and inspirations for my next graphic novel. I highly recommend the wonderful book by Fredrick and Audrey Hyde-Chambers, the collection of authentic Tibetan folklore.

Character Sketches for a short comics

Character Sketches

Character sketches for a new comic series.

Back to the Production

I took a couple of moth break from my graphic novel production due to family and personal reasons, but now I'm back and it truly is great to be back. It has been such a challenging process for a couple of years, but I feel I'm finally getting close to finishing it.

Great-great Grandfather's art pieces

My Great-great grandfather (my grandfather's grandfather) was a Noh-ga and Butsu-ga artist. Noh-ga is art for Noh, classical Japanese musical drama. These sketches are portrait for Noh actors. Butsu-ga is "painted representations of buddhist deities", and it refers to all paintings that have some relationship to Buddhism. According to my grandmother, these were done around 1930's. I wanted to share these works here because they are absolutely stunning.

Amsterdam

It was great to arrive to Amsterdam after 12 hour flight from Japan. It felt like I was back to a normal world. However, going from Japan to Netherlands is like going from a midget land to a giant land. I had no idea Dutch people are so tall.

People in Amsterdam knows how to chill. I've never been to a city where it has such relaxed atmosphere. It was a great stop over to go between two extreme countries; Japan and Israel. A walk in the Vondel Park was extremely enjoyable, as well as window-shopping at these funky stores near Dam square.

Only thing it was tough for me in Amsterdam was the food. It was especially tough coming from Japan , a food heaven. I mean how many toast and sandwiches can you have?

Have checked out Van Gogh and Rembrandt Museum. It was great seeing their original pieces.