Pictures Before a Picture Book One-Of-A-Kind 3" from top of head

3" from top of head to base of neck

Hiromu Kozaki created paper envelopes from everyday unused items

All the verve

Green with fuscia logo embroidery

9 inch diameter

Pictures Before a Picture Book One-Of-A-Kind 3" from top of headAfter a successful career of writing and illustrating children's books, Ryoji Arai set out to do something he had always wanted to do paint in dark colors. In this book, Arai paints each of these 23 works one by one with no beginning or end, and no story to link the paintings together. Each piece was sparked by a vague memory, mixed with a bit of fantasy, and tend to leave the viewer with a sense of nostalgia. What he set out to create as dark and