bon voyage
Rialto 19.9.16
Bon Voyage Tracy
the beginning of fall
Returning from the Farmer’s Market today, Fall was in the air.
saturday’s bouquets
bouquet from the imagination I 17.9.16
bouquet from the imagination II 17.9.16
I’m beginning to think the Gift of the Four Treasures has magical properties.
Here and Now: Part Two
Discover Challenge: Here and Now
“Choose a moment and capture it in the medium of your choice.”
This week’s Discover Challenge from the Daily Post is all about being in the moment. After Here and Now: Part One, and having introduced you to the Gift of the Four Treasures earlier this month, today in another over my shoulder video, Here and Now: Part Two continues to be very much in the moment as the painting from Part One begins to appear thanks to those beautiful treasures.
over my shoulder VII – Here and Now
If you would like to see more of my over the shoulder videos you will find their links here on From Yardwork to Arwork: The Photinia Story Part Three.
Here and Now: Part One
Discover Challenge: Here and Now
“Choose a moment and capture it in the medium of your choice.”
Bouquet 14.9.16
Nothing could be more now than being here in the studio this afternoon.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge
Spending last weekend with or beautiful granddaughter; what could be a better way to celebrate National Grandparents Day, and as you can see it also wasn’t hard to interpret this week’s Photo Challenge.
The Unwavering Spirit
From St Paul’s Chapel, Lower Manhattan, New York
We visited the chapel on our visit to ground zero and the National September 11 Memorial Museum last year. The rear of the chapel faced opposite the east side of the World Trade Centre, as it does now to the Freedom Tower. After the attack on September 11 it served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the World Trade Center site.
As we pause to remember and reflect on that fateful morning fifteen years ago today this uniform together with the crushed remains of Ladder 3 that are so reverently displayed in the Museum, and about which I posted earlier this year, all serve to remind us of the sacrifice and bravery of those 343 firefighters of the New York City Fire Department who were lost that day, together with an additional 68 emergency workers and the 2566 innocent lives they were trying to save.
Hope & Healing at Ground Zero
The Gift of the Four Treasures: Part Three
The final variation from the Gift of the Four Treasures – watercolour, pen, brush and ink
The Gift of the Four Treasures: Part Two
The Second Treasure from the Gift of the Four Treasures
In Part One I showed how special and meaningful the gift of the Four Treasures of the Study has been to me. In Part Two I continue to be inspired by this beautiful gift, interpreting yesterday’s Labor Day bouquet with these six variations.
The Third Treasure from the Gift of the Four Treasures
For this variation I ground the different coloured inks on the inkstone for the first time.
The Fourth Treasure from the Gift of the Four Treasures
In this fourth variation I used my traditional water colors together with the brush and ink,
producing a more vibrant and less muted image.
Five, Six and Seven.
Each of the variations began the same way, the brush charged with the freshly ground ink, its distinct aroma hanging in the air, the blank sheet ready and waiting to be brought to life.
Then as each image appeared the brush seemed to take on a life of its own creating arabesques as it danced across the paper. A definite moment of Zen.
The ink stick has been described as a scepter that conveys wishes for happiness and good
fortune, which was certainly felt in the studio this day.
For those of you visiting The Changing Palette for the first time I invite to learn about the history of the Four Treasures of the Study as I have done, which I have described in Part One.
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