I vaguely remembered that my astronomical numbers says my "FATE" is "Wood" based and therefore should refrain from too much "Water", as flood destroys and sweeps away timber. I believe it is this hazy memory that causes me to be afraid of water, to the point of pinching my nose when showering or else eliciting the reflex of hyperventilating. Having gills would be numero uno on my dream list.
Yet water mesmerizes me. The deep abyss with all its might, yet glistens and ripples and glistens.
I love to paint water, trying to capture that fleeting moment of movement, of that sparkle. Water is a common theme in my paintings. In fact the way I beguile myself into this hobby was by painting a family of Canada geese swimming by the backyard. Unfortunately I am often rewarded with frustration but lately I've been exploring this subject matter again.
Circular ripples are fascinating. Everybody knows them, but trying to portray them as not cook top heating elements is a different story.
The difficulty is, in my view, rooted in our innate desire to form and trace the outlines of circles, and ignore ( or unable to ) translate the motion of the ripple. We should be painting the energy of the outwardly radiating concentric circles, and not the circles themselves. I am not happy at all with my attempts, too static! Forgive me for being a sexist, but this is akin to a nice girl... proper and nice in every way, but ah so bland. We need to have ripples once in a while.
Note to self: keep painting these circles until you are sick of them then you'll be released by your bias as to what they SHOULD or NEED to look like. After these shackles are off, then try again.
I am an enthusiast of Chinese Brush Painting and I would like to share my trials and tribulations in learning the craft. I want to document the process, the inspiration and the weird ideas behind my projects and to address some of the nuances related to this dicipline. I hope to create a dialogue and stir up some interest in the art of painting with a Chinese brush on Xuan. In any case, it would be interesting to see my own evolution as time progresses. This is my journal
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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