Illustration Friday : Red
When I first moved to England I was 5 years old.
There were lots of things that amazed me. but one thing that is really vivid in my mind is the shock of discovering that the sun is yellow, and not RED, in children's pictures over here.
I guess it is because of the Japanese national flag that the sun is associated with the colour red in the Land of the rising Sun.
I did try to persuade my new friends that the sun should be red in our pictures, but I was quickly defeated. All it took was for them to point at the sky... well really, it's more white than yellow, anyway!
posted by Kumikob at 10:02 pm
13 Comments:
oo sweet little red girl ,great illustration:)and very nice story:)
This is lovely, beautiful design!
-Marjorie
Very sweet...love your style!
Thanks for stopping by with nice comments :)
Very cute and lovely! I really like the paper crane pattern background.
Beautiful illo...I love the story behind it too. :)
That's a great story, I had no idea about red suns. Charming illustration as well!
that's so sweet, and a very cute story. :) I never even knew kids in china draw red suns, - good to know!
cute illustration and a very interesting story. It's amazing to discover such unexpected cultural differences.
noo the rising sun is very red indeed. i use to see it rise aot whrn i had to be at work by 530 am in AZ. and i saw ir rise on fuji once too and it was red so that might be why the japanses have a red sun instead of a yellow one like the english and whos to say that it has t be the way they want any ways lol ohhhh lol see i got caught up in that sorry just wanted to say great lookin piece and like the japanese details in it
Hi guys, thanks so much for your comments!
hello kumiko i thought you were on holidays so didn't check your blog. hehehe.. nice story. I grew up with yellow sun.
thanks for the comment about my shop too!
hello kumiko! how is it going? i am tagging you for the 7 random things meme (see my blog for details). hope you can play :)
This illustration is sooooo wonderful! I absolutely love red.
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