Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
February 22, 2012
Using the Bhutanese woodblock as my inspiration, I made a scroll about the Wind Horse.
I use a wood box-like form to hold the paper off the floor before I apply the hot wax. When I first started experimenting with wax I painted right on the floor. Not a good thing. The hot wax and paper adhered firmly to the floor! This scroll is about 60 inches long. The materials I used were watercolor, gold fluid acrylic, bleached beeswax 100% pure domestic imported from Germany, sumi ink, and pastels on mulberry paper. The ‘Precious horse’ and linear areas around it was done first, using hot wax. When the paper was dry I applied watercolor which filled up all the untouched paper – the wax stopped the pigment creating a batik. (click on image to see it larger)
Tags:Abstract Art, abstract painting, Bhutan, scroll, Travel, Wax, Wind Horse
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February 21, 2012
The Wind Horse, shown on the the imprint of a prayer flag is a luck-bringing symbol. This horse can bring good luck, life force, health, influence and merit. On his back is the Flaming Jewel, a spiritual warrior, capable of fulfilling all wishes. The spiritual warrior is carried past the many obstacles leading into the sacred world. The word for Wind Horse (Lungta) has come to mean luck.
I found the wood block in Thimpu, when I was snooping around the shops near the contemporary art school. Using printers ink, and stamps on mulberry paper I made up some small pieces. I started to make an limited edition of five Artist’s Books on mulberry paper. They are scrolls about 62″ high. Now there are only four. I tore up one last week while working on an idea. The torn pieces may be incorporated in the finished product. This print shown above may be added to one of the scrolls. It’s a work in progress. (As usual click on the image to see it bigger)
Tags:abstract painting, animals, Art, Artist Book, Bhutan, poem, Prayer flag, Shopping, Thimphu, Travel, Wind Horse, woodblock print
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February 1, 2012
Dazu
Alone on the bamboo bridge
hunched over from the weight of her pack,
an old woman layered in rags
wails her story to the trees.
Behind the dense green curtain of bamboo
her audience listens:
fifty thousand stone Buddhas,
donors, and Bodhisattvas,
carved one thousand years ago.
For a moment I leave Dazu thinking
of the opera house back home.
Tags:Art, Bamboo, Bodhisattva, charcoal, China, Dazu, Dazu Rock Carvings, drawing, poetry, Travel
Posted in China, drawings, Poems, Travel Drawings | 7 Comments »
January 13, 2012
Get out the Brushes app and draw.
Watching soccer in a Seattle bar.
On the airplane with no paper and pen
But iphone in my purse.
Great way to try out new ways to draw or paint.
Tags:Brushes App, drawing, iphone, Painting, Seattle, Travel
Posted in Abstract Painting, brushes, drawings, Iphone Paintings, Seattle, Travel Drawings | 7 Comments »
January 12, 2012
This photograph taken by David Alosi reminds me of the art schools in Bhutan where traditional art is taught.
My friends wore the traditional costume of Bhutan when they were in public. As soon as they got home they would change into jeans.
Tags:Bhutan, drawing, Myanmar, Travel
Posted in drawings, Myanmar, Photographs | 1 Comment »
January 6, 2012
Besides having trees with knitted sweaters, Seattle has some other cool things going for it. Barnaby and Sherri run www.foodista.com/ a culinary encyclopedia based in Seattle. Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook: 100 Great Recipes, Photographs, and Voices by Sheri L. Wetherell, Barnaby Dorfman and Colin M. Saunders can be ordered through Amazon. Amy Pennington has a thriving business, http://www.gogogreengarden.com/ in urban gardening and cooking. She is very busy writing books, practicing her skills and just being a loving dynamic woman.
Tags:cooking, drawing, gardening, moleskine sketchbook, Oddfellows, Seattle, Travel, www.Foodista.com, www.gogogreengarden.com
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January 5, 2012
On a wet grey day we drove by some trees wearing colorful knitted sweaters! How neat was that !
The little Winsor & Newton water color box I’ve had for years. It measures 2″ x 3″. I buy half pan paints, cut them in half and replace used up paints. The box and waterbrush easily fit in my pocket or purse.
I looked up knitted sweaters on trees and found the following installation artist.
Suzanne Tidwell http://www.facebook.com/tidwellart
Tags:Abstract Art, drawing, moleskine sketchbook, Painting, Seattle, Travel
Posted in drawings, moleskine, Paintings, Seattle, Sketchbooks, Travel Drawings | 11 Comments »
January 4, 2012
Last week’s drawings were the result of me taking a rest from radiation effects on my body. I stopped blogging about my bout with cancer because I was told my blog was too painful. I wanted to move on. But I kept thinking. This image of what I thought my MRI was like is interesting. So among the small travel drawings here is my interpretation of my MRI experience,
Tags:Abstract Art, California, drawing, India ink drawn with a stick, MRI Xray pastels, san francisco, Travel
Posted in Art and Healing, California, Cancer, drawings, Paintings, Travel Drawings | 7 Comments »
