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It was a cold, crisp morning at the end of January. I visited one of the most famous spots in Kyoto called San-nei-zaka. It is a side street with stone steps and beautiful traditional buildings (Machiya) standing on both sides of the steps. During high season, thousands of tourists visit this area all day long, but at that time, no one was around, but myself. There was just a peaceful silence. I stood at the top of the hill, looking down at the charming scene for a very long time. And I thought I really wanted to paint this scenery. As it was a freezing cold day (it snowed sometimes), the sky was so dull. I was uncertain which colour I should use on the sky part and I decided to paint as little colour as possible. If you feel the sky looks featureless, my mission is partly completed!

It was a big challenge for me to work on this. I used a realistic painting technique for this. Drawing was the hardest part-- it took about 2 weeks because I didn't use a scale anywhere in this painting. I never thought that drawing straight lines needed such a big effort!

I painted this in March, 2012

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It was a cold, crisp morning at the end of January. I visited one of the most famous spots in Kyoto called San-nei-zaka. It is a side street with stone steps and beautiful traditional buildings (Machiya) standing on both sides of the steps. During high season, thousands of tourists visit this area all day long, but at that time, no one was around, but myself. There was just a peaceful silence. I stood at the top of the hill, looking down at the charming scene for a very long time. And I thought I really wanted to paint this scenery. As it was a freezing cold day (it snowed sometimes), the sky was so dull. I was uncertain which colour I should use on the sky part and I decided to paint as little colour as possible. If you feel the sky looks featureless, my mission is partly completed!

It was a big challenge for me to work on this. I used a realistic painting technique for this. Drawing was the hardest part-- it took about 2 weeks because I didn't use a scale anywhere in this painting. I never thought that drawing straight lines needed such a big effort!

I painted this in March, 2012

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