Portrait
Looking at the names of sketching strokes
in Chinese art, I see the country:
Ancient wavy silk thread
String
Iron wire
Moving cloud and flowing water
Leech
Nail-head, rat-tail
Wedge
Broken reed
Olive
Date pit
Willow leaf
Bamboo leaf
Shaking ripple
Earthworm
Beautiful, Carla!
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Thank you Debra. It’s the process that is the fun paart – just doing it.
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Beautiful work, and yes, such atmosphere in these words, a poem in themselves..
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I like the title Blanket and Bone. Now I’m working on Settle and chase where that came from.
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Shall I leave you guessing? 🙂
Great to meet you, thanks for visiting back!
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I’ll guess for awhile:)
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I bought the Chinese sketching Strokes book and scroll paper in a little Chinese book shop off Lombard in North Beach I think it’s called west wind or east wind. i tried my hand at copying the illustrations.
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It was a good exercise and the poem just came out – easily. Yhanks for dropping by here. I see we have mutual friends.
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