Koinobori - My Koi fishes and Cherry grove festival

I saw Koi fish drawing by Hive account@veryspider yesterday, and remembered my fishes.
Long time ago - from 2012!
At that time, I almost always painted faces, so on my fishes was so many faces ...
I'll show 2 now, they were both sold at charity auction after the festival.
I have a third fish at home, it's still not finished - never sewed eyes and gills :)

Hier is the first one, I painted with acrylic and textil fineliners.
I have stick pieces of fabric on one side :) some hearts and flowers.
I made front and back side different:

This one have also different sides, fish tail made of painted silk.
It was collaboration work with Hisa Enomoto -
she made here background and sewing work:

I'm sorry, didn't made bether photo.

This Koinobori was an project by my Japanese friend and artist Hisa Enomoto and her friends.
I helped a little bit with workshops in the schools to paint koi with the kids.

Hisa and I cut the fabrics for the children:

After being painted by schoolchildren, they were sewn together:

And now to Koinobori Festival!
The Koi were hung in Vienna on the Danube terrain at the cherry grove. It was really such a beautiful festival!

There was a lot to see or join in ... singer, tea ceremony, origami, delicious food, archers and drummers...

I liked the drumming at most!

Thanks everyone! <3
Cheers!