You can present anything you like, all that’s needed for a guest post is to send it to and have it accepted by any one of the regular contributors (see sidebar or Schedule page). It’s not anything rigorous, just a matter of form. You don’t necessarily have to start with your own work, although that does fit well for a first post, and there are so many interesting things about your art, I’m sure you can’t go wrong.

Futtara means, in the right context, “if it were to rain.” I like rain (especially in Japan) and weather in general. Looks like you do, too. You could probably fashion a post around “I’ve been breathing in the cool calming air with my painting.”

Sorry for the delayed response - I have been frozen in art (well that’s what my blog says!). It’s been chilly in the UK and I’ve been breathing in the cool calming air with my painting.

I will take a proper look at Sunil’s post later this week so that I can look at his approach. Do you have any prescribed format, content, or questions to be answered for a guest submission? And what’s the best method to get my guest post to the blog please?

Finally, I’ve not been able to track down the precise understanding of futtara but I do know it has a connection to if it rains.How bizarre is that? or not, in the karmic sense. Please can you enlighten me? My connection with Japan is more buddhist than language.

I like your painting entitled Irasshai. If you have some connection to Japan, you might be amused to know that my email name (futtara) is almost the same as the name of your website.

Thanks also for your invite to write a guest post here about how I incorporate music, I will put something together in due course - it’s exciting and worthy of discussion.

As you’ve noticed, we’re pretty much about visual art here, but your way of incorporating music sounds very interesting. If you want to write about it and discuss it sometime, consider a guest post here!

The music used for each painting is listed on my site; most sets of mixed music are available on the web or on cd, all are too big to post as sound in the gallery and I think I’d need a licence to make DJ’s and musicians work available via my site. The music used is usually a fusion of many different pieces of music woven together in a mix. Please ask via my site if you want to track down any particular music I have used.

The music is not the art, but part of the journey towards the output that the viewer sees on canvas. I open up and share the details of the music I use, as a glimpse into the record of my artistic path, during each painting.

Sorry for the photography shock, there is a simple explanation. The Photography on my site is art, and of course subject to interpretation. I title it “photography” in the gallery simply to differentiate from my art paintings and to avoid a word wrap in the left hand navigation if I’m entirely honest-art photography is too long. Maybe I’ll change to the heading to Art Gallery with subheadings of Painting and Photography - it’s a good observation, thanks.

The lion may or may not be required, the lion is another aspect of me that appears in my creative art photography. The same applies to my painting and photography; they are aspects of my art that manifest themselves - both may or may not be required, but they do exist.

I’m shocked to see on your web site that Photography is not Art. Letting that pass, I wonder what connection you see between your painting and your photography. It seems lions are not required.