I got these today! Yeah yeah! They are so nice and cute, in good material too!
I talked about this club in my previous post here
Go to see my photos of Nicholas books at my beautiful books if you want!
shiawase na happa by yuko ohnari
I’m building up a collection of my-beautiful-book photos at my other flickr It has only 3 sets right now but I plan to add more. The idea is just to share my passion for book ,design and illustration. Some I have read, some on the waiting list and some in other languages that I can’t read but just want to collect. These books help me a lot whenever I get bored or depressed.
By the way, I already talked about this book here
I’m pretty slow in drawing journal. This is my first color drawing I did on November 29 and almost forgot to post it up! I did this drawing one night after finishing my usual work. We have had this lamp since we were just kids. The design is a bit traditional if compare to present lamps in the market. It’s well-designed though. I love the combination of light brown wood and dark chocolate metal work. It also says something of my childhood sitting under the lamp reading cartoons 
I’m quite sure that among things that we learned to draw as a kid, besides house, flowers or the sun etc, tree might be one of the easiest thing to draw. People can recognize it no matter how lousy your drawing is. It’s a natural connection. However, I think that tree is the most difficult subject as well. A tree has many branches, many layers and so much in detail. Each leaf even has different line patterns.
I guess that is the charm of drawing a tree.
Bruno Munari teaches us how to draw a tree with his simplest but poetic words along with beautiful illustrations in this book. I can imagine his spending long hours outside in different places, different time observing trees in different forms before he wrote the book. It must have been a precious time for him.
I really like this book. Its beautiful drawings in simple layout really inspire me to draw some more trees…outside.
Here are samples of inside pages.
