Design Festa Art Show

We went to this huge art show called Design Festa a couple weeks ago held in Tokyo Big Site. Design Fest is put on twice a year by an organization that has a full time art showcase warehouse in Harajuku. We've been to the original building but it was cool to see the good and not so good art all in one place. This building is huge! When we left the art show it was really dark out so I couldn't get a good picture of it but I searched online and found this one. So if the Olympics are held in Tokyo in 2016, this is where some of the events will take place.

Tokyo Big Site (I did not take this picture.)

Like I said before this was a huge art show that showcased artists from all over Japan. They had paintings, sculptures, clothes, crafts etc. etc. so it took a long time to go through all the aisles of artists. Brad and I bought a few copies of paintings and some cards that will be fun to have up in our place some day. 

This is what it looked like inside.

Brad liked this one.

I thought this one was kind of pretty. Some of the art was really out there and not quite to my liking (i.e. a lot of it was more modern looking or was manga (comic book) style illustrations. 

A lot of artists painted huge murals over the course of the weekend. It was fun to see them paint!

I thought this one was really neat. She looked almost alive!

This one was my favorite from the whole day. It had so much detail in it! I'm not sure how they made it but it looked like the whole thing was done with a fine tipped sharpie. 

Anyway, we did a lot of walking and it was a fun day! Although I'm still working on appreciating some styles of art (maybe I'm just not creative enough to "get it") but it was a fun experience!