Beverly Claire Kaiya Blogs

Cosmos with an otherworldly glow of pink+green, orange+yellow and blue+purple. I took the photo at a flower park and added patterned texture for color and interest. The 3D virtual room I deliberately rendered to have a monochrome look. Makes the p... 

It's October (already)! My latest 3D render is rightly autumn-ish: A contemporary room with sparkling white walls and polished grey granite floors serves as the perfect space for a trio of digital art, Resurrection lilies in autumn hues. Read more on... 

A few thoughts on the movie "Citizen Kane" and a sampling of the beautiful bronze sculptures at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan. Read more on my travel blog. 

A field of celosia, of the plumed cockscomb variety, in vibrant red and yellow. This is the second installment in my "Fruit of the Spirit" series. Read more on my photography siteB 

A series of images of Melampodium paludosum, also known as Gold Medallion flower. Enjoy the bright, cheerful yellow petals against the violet bluemink in the background. I took the photos at a flower park and added textures for a painterly look. A ba... 

A field of cat's tail, also called foxtail or bristlegrass. They were growing on an abandoned lot next to a large bridge in my neighborhood. Read more on my photography blog.  

I made 3D models of an Art Deco bookshelf and uplighter, and rendered them in a virtual room. The framed black-and-white photos of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty I took in New York during a visit there. Read more on my design blog. 

A framing idea for the work "Ageratum or Bluemink with Watercolor Brushstrokes Overlay". A colorful interpretation of the Ageratum. The flowers are called Bluemink but the color is closer to lavender than blue.I took the photo at a flower park and th... 

Cute little wild mushrooms growing under the trees in a museum park. Read more about the Sezon Museum of Modern Art over at my travel blog. Forests and Lakes postcards as well as Wild Mushrooms gifts are available in my gift shop. Art prints are a... 

A vivid pink and purple sunset at the Moroiso Bay in Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Silhouettes of yachts add depth to this scene. Mt. Fuji can be seen in the background. I framed the photo and used it to one of my 3D room models with a... 

Some wonderful steampunk-inspired interiors and customizable gift items. Read more at my interior decor site. 

My digital illustration of Mother Earth. This abstract piece is filled with animal and botanical patterns.Color palette consists of earth tones. Read more about this piece on my interior design site.  

A field of cockscomb in vibrant colors of red, magenta and goldenrod yellow. Green trees in the background, blue sky and puffy white clouds complete the scene. I took this photo at a flower park in September 2012, and gave it a painterly feel. Thi... 

Lovely autumn is here! No more excuses not to go out and exercise: "Find yourself. Go run." Read more on my photography blog.  

I created this 3D model of an Art Deco-style, eight lamp, cylindrical chandelier. I love Art Deco furniture and find the style's design principles to be perfectly applicable to today's modern home. Check out how the chandelier looks in a virtual room... 

Let's talk bridges! Here's a view of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo, lit up in colors to celebrate the awarding of the 2020 Summer Olympics to Tokyo. I took the photo from the Shibaura pier side of Tokyo Bay. Read more about this piece on my interior de... 

I recently uploaded an image of a tiny forest in the form of a bonsai pot on a raised pedestal. I took the photo at a Buddhist temple in Japan, named Josen-ji. It calls itself the "Temple of Flowers" because of the lush gardens surrounding the temple... 

I rendered a contemporary product gallery for home furnishings, with sparkling white walls, grey stepped ceiling with LED strip lighting, and polished black granite floors. The images on the wall are traditional Japanese dinnerware from my kitchen ca... 

Indonesian food--yum! Introducing my favorite Indonesian restaurant in Yokohama: Surabaya Kouhoku. I also featured some of my sunset and night photography taken in the area. Hop on over to my travel site to read more. 

It's the 1st of September! To celebrate early autumn I rounded up some gorgeous orange rooms, home accessories, and some of my autumn prints to add touches of fall to your living space. Click here to read more on Beverly Claire Interiors. 

My kimono-inspired vector art, consisting of stylized flowers with layers of petals like the chrysanthemum but with a simpler structure and fewer petals. The flowers grow along a riverbank, with smaller flowers floating above the water. For the color... 

I did a 3D render of a room scene with my Red Poppy canvas print and the famous Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair. Click here to read more. 

In this post I write about my virtual collection of Art Deco-style sunburst mirrors. I love these things! I also show one of my 3D models of a sunburst mirror that I made using a modeling software. Hop on over to Beverly Claire Interiors to read more...