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bamboo
There are Four Gentlemen who have a prominent place in my artistic life – such as it is. They have been very patient as I wandered various paths of being schooled by the brush. I’ve appealed to their...
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orchid
It felt a little too conventional practising the Orchid brush stroke. But that’s OK; that happens when I spend time copying paintings even though this is an acceptable – and expected – process of...
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chrysanthemum
One of the difficulties I have with painting is to resist doing too much. For a while I spent more time copying the exact number of petals in a flower, for example, as a way to slow down that...
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plum branch
Parabola Magazine on Facebook had some wonderful quotes from and comments about John Cage on his birthday. I particularly liked this one: “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem...
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300 things
Step out onto the Planet Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find? Lew Welch Filed under: 108...
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productivity to presence
In August, Joseph and Chong Go Sunim of the amazing Wake Up and Laugh! blog delivered a one-two punch on the topic of “difficult people” and “difficult emotions.” Being the quintessential difficult...
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to make a painting
See your own nature, become Buddha Yuzen Gentatsu (1854-1930) At some point along the journey there is a moment of softening. This Daruma is a shift from the stern Patriarch and shows a gentling in...
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waiting for a bus
Deiryu Kutsu (1895-1954; Seo & Addiss, The Art of 20th Century Zen) was a follower of Nantenbo and, while much of his art resembles his teacher’s work in its iconoclastic flourish, Deiryu’s...
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one stroke
This is a one-stroke Daruma. Kaz Tanahashi is the master of the one-stroke painting. Good teachers are skilled in the one-stroke teaching. Sohan Gempo (1848-1922) brushed a representation of the...
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buddha 108
Born within the enso of the world the human heart must also become an enso Nantenbo Thank you for sharing these 108 days of being Buddha. May we all, through our creative love for each other,...
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