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Aikido at the shrine

I attend an aikido class a few times a week.  I’m still very much a novice, but it gets me moving and I find it is frequently the only time during the week when I am truly ‘present’ in my own body.

This weekend a friend invited me to attend a class at a nearby shinto temple.  It was a great experience – a different style of instruction with a different emphasis in techniques.  I didn’t think to bring my camera, but my daughter took some images.

It’s amazing to me that something like this is so close.

Kitsune shrine
Kaeru
temizuya water pavillion with a dragon spout and underwater frog
One of the outdoor holy places. I love all the moss.
Inside the shrine
the torii gate
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Sneaky fox

I’ve been trying to come up with a very stylized fox to fit with the tree & owl and so far that’s not been working out so great.  I may need to go back to some sort of ancient technology like paper and pencil to get the sketch done first!

Instead I made another color-block fox.  This time I tried to use simpler lines, but I may need to ‘cartoonify’ him even more to get him to fit the scene.  Still, I like him.

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Fox

This is a vector tracing/coloring of a photograph, with some creative embellishments.  I’m not 100% happy with the colors or how I split them up, but it came out, overall, better than I expected.

I thought my trees could use some foxes.  This one is probably a bit too realistic in shape to go with that, but I will modify it to fit the tone as I get better.

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