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People who have never seen Amika's paintings before are particularly surprised by the richness of the colours, and not just on social media.

This is because, on average, Amika uses a unique technique [mixing colours without mixing, using five colours at a time] to create her paintings.

In this issue, we will get to the bottom of this secret.

We hope you'll join us for this colour geek story!

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Walking Painter Project: 5-minute drawing challenge of pets and landscapes and gallery visits - CAMPFIRE (camp-fire.jp)

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Since she was a little girl, Amika has longed for the world of Western paintings and foreign picture books.

She has always wanted to visit foreign countries with bright, colourful landscapes that are completely different from those in Japan.

This is because.

Japan is not like that today, but in the small provincial towns of 40 years ago, there were no nice houses or streets that Amika would have wanted to admire.

I didn't like it because there were no nice houses or streets that Amika would want to admire, and the colours seemed to be subdued.

Now, of course, she thinks such cityscapes and Japanese landscapes are wonderful.

Amika first went abroad when she was in her first year of junior college.

She went to a university in Arizona on a short-term study abroad programme.

To be honest, I really enjoyed it. The difference in the air as soon as I arrived in the USA, the strong Arizona sun even though it was winter, the cacti, the colourful cacti everywhere I looked.

and the colourful colours everywhere you looked.

Amika's speciality is that she can go back in time and remember the feeling of that time, as if she were in a time jump, but everything was so vivid.

Everything was so vivid.

And when I returned to Japan, I couldn't bear to live in such a depressed and colourless world! (Sorry, I was just a child!

(Sorry, I was just a child!). (Sorry, I was just a child!) I decided that I would definitely live abroad and spend my days in a colourful world.

The house I was living in at the time was an ordinary Showa-era house, lacking in colour.

My room was also a Japanese-style room with sand walls and tatami mats. I really didn't like it anymore (embarrassed).

So my goal was to get married abroad, live in a nice house and have a colourful life.

Anyway, all I did was listen to Western music and watch Western films.

Now, for some reason, I still live in a small town in rural Japan surrounded by rice paddies.

I paint my own pictures for colour, and I think that's fine.

However, when I built my house, I took the opportunity to use my favourite building materials and colours.

My friends like it, but my grandmother was quite surprised.)

Our bathroom has French-style floral wallpaper and pretty lighting.)

My longing for colour and Western painting may have exploded as a reaction to my childhood.

But I also think it's okay because I'm a painter. Seeing convincing colours every day motivates me to create.

Likewise, I'm glad I found an architectural firm that has an artistic flair. I'll talk about that architectural company again soon.

It was a company that answered my detailed colour needs.

Well, that's all for today.

Cat.