Echizen has a small expo called the Chrysanthemum Earth Festival. It’s a local eco-festival, with 4 themes: Ajimano, man’yo, ecology, and chrysanthemums. It was started last year by a volunteer organization that my wife’s brother is part of, and this year I was asked to do the promo poster for it. I thought it would be a great chance to do a Japanese painting. So I started out by painting a few Chrysanthemums (which are the official flower of Echizen city):

Chrysanthemums

And then tweaked it around a bit to make it more like a poster, adding the event information, and changing the center flower into the Earth:

菊地球博