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oldpainting: hicockalorum: Dragon Yaroslav Gerzhedovich

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:53:10 -0400

hicockalorum:

Dragon

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich

CONSTANT | RETURN: Jorie Graham | The Way Things Work

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:49:06 -0400

CONSTANT | RETURN: Jorie Graham | The Way Things Work:

is by admitting

or opening away.

This is the simplest form

of current: Blue

moving through blue;

blue through purple;

the objects of desire

opening upon themselves

without us; the objects of faith.

The way things work

is by solution,

resistance lessened or

increased and…

fqwimages: Buddhist Art from Thailand, as seen in the Asian...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:15:34 -0400

fqwimages:

Buddhist Art from Thailand, as seen in the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

Pretty fascinating stuff, and the museum is worth a trip if you ever visit Singapore.

ethnoarte: Female breastplate were used during the Dharmanema a...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:11:59 -0400

ethnoarte:

Female breastplate were used during the Dharmanema a festival in honor of Bhuta deieties.

Casting bronze
Tulunadu district, Karnataka, India.
XVIII century.
H 42 cm.

renadamsart: My more traditional Chinese painting studies make...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:10:35 -0400

renadamsart:

My more traditional Chinese painting studies make use of the yin zhang chop tradition, which expects the artist to affix a chop or stamp to a work upon completion. The chop marks it as the artist’s own and a mood chop is often used to help impart additional conceptual meaning to the piece itself.

As you can see, I have a few different mood chops (the chop markings with symbolic sayings).

The carved stone chop is pressed into a special ink paste, sometimes made from silk fibers mixed with oil and vermilion. Other times, and most commonly, the paste is made from vegetable materials, mixed with oil and pigment.

I got my tin of ink paste in San Francisco Chinatown in 1996 and I am still using it! It lasts forever and is rich and powerful.

kongkhanun: Artist : Kriangkrai...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:05:45 -0400

kongkhanun:

Artist : Kriangkrai Kongkhanun
http://kongkhanun.blogspot.com

"Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:04:36 -0400

“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

- Hermann Hesse (via fernsandmoss)

"I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:03:59 -0400

““I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It’s really not my fault.””

- Arthur Rimbaud (via fernsandmoss)

isamizdat: alexanderraban

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:01:48 -0400

isamizdat:

alexanderraban

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:47:12 -0400

Get out of my garden

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:50:41 -0400

Get out of my garden

kordova: suddenly overhearing people talking about a thing you like

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:47:03 -0400

kordova:

suddenly overhearing people talking about a thing you like

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:45:19 -0400

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:40:43 -0400

"I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:52:57 -0400

“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”

- Henry Rollins, Solipsist (via beefsquatch)

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:49:17 -0400

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”

- Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (via mythologyofblue)

distant-traveller: Earth from space: Swains Island Swains...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:47:52 -0400

distant-traveller:

Earth from space: Swains Island

Swains Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean, is a small coral atoll comprised of an outer perimeter (approximately 13 km in circumference) of flat coral reefs and a 2.5 km² ring-shaped landmass surrounding a shallow fresh-water lagoon in the centre that is closed off from the sea.

Image credit: SSTL through ESA

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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:46:55 -0400

ancientart: Prehistoric petroglyph depicting a possibly...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:43:25 -0400

ancientart:

Prehistoric petroglyph depicting a possibly sleeping antelope, located at Tin Taghirt on the Tassili n’Ajjer in southern Algeria.

Photo courtesy & taken by Linus Wolf

"Drawing is fun. People who hope to become professional illustrators study special techniques and in..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:38:21 -0400

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Drawing is fun. People who hope to become professional illustrators study special techniques and in due course get better at drawing. However, often as they make progress with their technique they lose their spirits which is the most important thing in illustrating. This is no good. Drawing technically well alone means nothing. Unfortunately, spirits cannot be taught. That is the problem.

Obviously, professionals need to draw well or they’ll be laughingstocks. In that respect, amateurs can be more easygoing because they don’t need to concern themselves with technique. They can simply enjoy drawing for themselves what they see and feel without worrying about the opinions of others. For professionals this is not the case. They have to show off their soil to the world, which keeps them from seeming relaxed. In point of fact, an old man who hasn’t drawn since childhood may draw a primitive illustration which moves the viewer deeply. Heta-uma (Bad-nice) illustrations fascinate me because of this kind of inversion of value.

You should believe that your talent as an unskillful illustrator is equal to another’s skillful talent.

”

- King Terry (via buffproofink)