水彩画：紅葉七分 (The Watercolor: Three Fourths Foliage in Autumn Colors)

　かつてブログに掲載した写真（2004年11月16日付け "Autumn Leaves" の記事中のもの。京都・高雄で撮影）を参考に、今秋の美交会展に出す水彩画の2枚目を仕上げた（完成は昨24日）。透明水彩絵具と、ホルベイン「ウォーターフォード・ホワイト」水彩紙 F6 (410×318 mm) を使用した。デッサン段階の絵の写真も合わせて掲載する。紅葉がまだ最盛期でなく、淡い色合いであるのを面白く思って、題材に選んだ。すでに散り落ちた地上の葉は、濃い赤色をしているものが多い。

By reference to a photo posted before on this blog site (in "Autumn Leaves", dated November 16, 2004; taken at Takao, Kyoto), I completed a watercolor yesterday. It is one of the two works of mine to be presented at Bikokai Exhibition this autumn. Transparent watercolors and a F6-size (410 × 318 mm) sheet of Holbein's "Water Ford White" watercolor paper were used. The image of the drawing at the time of rough sketch is also shown. I was interested in the pale colors of Japanese maple leaves before becoming fully red. On the ground, however, we see most of fallen leaves already have dark red color.