The greatest glory is in raising every time we fall

We are making a little halt sharing the pictures from our last snowy adventure to show a few pics we took from Mitsuru from Nagataya Kyoto with our last giveaway painting prize finished.

For those who missed it, we were happy to host a giveaway from Nagataya Kyoto during our second edition of Catweek this last January. The winner, Melissa, chose her favorite quote which was “The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall” which we think is pretty cool and it was also challenging for Mitsuru for its length; fortunately the A3 painting was more than enough canvas space and resulted in a, if we can say it ourselves, eye-catching piece.

Mitsuru uses personalized brushes with his name engraved that come from Japan, he buys them himself when he is visiting or have their family sending them over.

The red seal in the paintings is his signature, the seal ink container was also very pretty to see!

We thought that you may be curious to see Mitsuru himself & the final result, so we took the opportunity to take some pictures with him in his studio while fetching the painting to ship it to its new owner.

We’ll come back next week with more snow pictures! Wish you all a nice weekend and end of February, I have only one wish for March: warmer weather! What do you wish for?