Author: Liane Wakabayashi

Heart to Heart: A Partners’ Art and Discussion Workshop March 15, April 12 (national holiday) 2:30-4:30 pm Fee: ¥5,000 per couple (Partner = couples, spouses, friends, parent-children, siblings. All welcome!) Location: Genesis Art Studio, Wakabayashi Heim 2nd Floor 2-26-8 Taito 6 minutes from JR Okachimachi station, Hibiya or Ginza lines Reservations: 090-4122-6626 or email: liane@axel.ocn.ne.jp…

As a journalist, a deck of cards helped me become more creative and find more enjoyment from my work. At first it was someone else’s deck and over time, the deck became one I made myself. You may have this deck now. It’s called the Genesis Cards. And in the future, I hope you’ll have…

As I look at these before and after drawings, I am reminded of the power of “a million dollar smile.” A smile makes you smile. A smile is warmth and it lights you up and catches you in its curves. KB, the artist who made this wonderful intuitive sketch left the studio smiling herself. KB…

  I love sharing what I’ve learned over the years about rubbing up against the mystery of the drawn and painted object. When we  step out of the everyday world of what we know about a flower, a stem and leaf, and a vase, we are free to draw out the essence of the object,…

  Yesterday I got back from the quickest and longest trip I think I’ve ever taken in Japan. I took a 7 am bus from Shinjuku station, arriving in historic Takayama at 12:30 on the button. Waiting behind the bus was a  local Hida area bus which I boarded for a scenic 50 minute ride…

Women’s Genesis Art Retreat in historic Takayama area of Gifu-Prefecture  Awakening Through Intuitive Art  Monday August 11, 5 pm – Friday August 15  noon Special super-low price! Four nights accommodation, ten meals, eight art workshops – Until  July 7 ¥32,000   After July 7 ¥38,000 For inquiries and workshop signup application phone 090-4122-6626 or email: lianewakabayashi@gmail.com Awaken…

DRAW WITH LIANE IN  YOYOGI PARK AND CONTRIBUTE TO A GREAT CAUSE! Sunday 6/29 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Liane in collaboration with Intrepid Model Adventures offers a pay-as-you wish drawing workshop in nature with all proceeds going to IMA charities in Tohoku, the Philipines and other distressed communities. More details can be found on…

I know it’s hard to believe this–but when I drew the figure on the right I had no awareness of dancer Gaston Gurewitz’s photo on the left. Here is the sweet story behind the drawing on the right. I was in Starbucks when a man with his cell phone caught my eye. I drew him…

Contact: liane@axel.ocn.ne.jp These watercrayon drawings, for sale at the 12/2 Design Festa Gallery exhibition “Colors of Nature Exhibition” are part of my collaboration with the very talented Russian-American artist Lark Larisa Pilinsky. Twenty percent from the sales of these drawings will be donated to my favorite charity, Intrepid Model Adventures. I’m at the gallery 12-6…

In late September, with the start of a new year in the Jewish calendar, I began a yearlong project to illustrate the Torah with weekly drawings. I’m taking it week by week, knowing that as the year wears on, I’m going to find it pretty tough to draw some of those sections. Well, the first…