Tag Archives: sunset

Once upon a time with Red Spider Lilies.

Red spider lilies in rural Japanese wild.

Photographed September 2015, originally posted on VSCO Cam on October 17, 2017.
Published February 20, 2021.

Lily Shangri-la. Where Life warms you like the gentlest bonfire.
Same as this location (“Lily Sanctuary”), last fall (2020) I saw the tree uprooted along with all the lily bulbs.

Abstraction in Nature – December 07, 2015

Green foxtails at sunset.
Artist’s hand and a drawing.

Rather large pencil drawings of a spider lily petal are inching toward completion. Captured this evening at the copper gold moment right before the sundown. This is for a series of dyed silk garments named “Spider Lily Red”. It is important that I get it right while on paper, so that when I move on to painting on silk, my brush will be reasonably sure-footed.

Magenta Sunsets – an update on Spider Lily Red


Artist's hands and a drawing.
Seaside at sundown.
Grass leaves at sundown by ocean.
A drawing detail.
A pencil drawing detail.

This early summer, we are having sunsets in vivid magenta, frequently enough to surprise, amuse, worry – an earthquake premonition? – many of us over here.
Drawings in the photos – extended, drawn, traced – are for “Spider Lily Red”, the newest series of dyed garments.