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Category archives: Art activities

Season’s Greetings

Season's Greetings 2023

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ❄️ Here is my Season’s Greetings card, an aerial inspired one of Glasgow …

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9 December, 20229 December, 2022Posted inArt activities

Season’s Greetings ❄️

Season's Greetings Blair Thomson 2021

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ 最近の2021年のアートワークは絵と写真と書道といろいろ。 I’ve been fortunate to practice different styles of Shodo calligraphy, jazzy …

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18 December, 202118 December, 2021Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

Shodo event this weekend

I have a free #Shodo #calligraphy in person event this weekend, 31st & 1st at Queen's Park in #Glasgow – a Celebration of #Japanese Culture 🗻 If you are in …

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29 July, 202119 December, 2021Posted inArt activities

Remembering the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

It is now ten years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. We wish to send our warm wishes to all those still very much affected in …

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9 March, 20219 March, 2021Posted inArt activitiesTags: Buddhism, drawing & painting, Japan

Kana かな calligraphy practice

かな 練習 kana practice
4 February, 20214 February, 2021Posted inArt activities

Season’s Greetings スコットランドから❄️

I hope you are keeping well and wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ With kind wishes for 2021, Year of the Cow …

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21 December, 202021 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, Suibokuga

透明観 tōmeikan – tokyo

deepening spaces –inching somewhere, somehow,absorbing and refracting 透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan – observation meditation; perceive

2 December, 202015 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: Japan, photography, Tokyo

透明観 tōmeikan – photography project

透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light 明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan observation meditation; perceive transparent and moving, perceiving interpenetrating and making space, like …

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20 November, 202015 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: photography, tōmeikan

Breathing spaces and balance – Japanese & Chinese seal engraving

It was great to have the time to work on 篆刻 tenkoku seal engraving for hansetsu sized calligraphy paper. These hakubun and shubun white and red letter 印 stamps have …

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9 November, 202015 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: Japanese and Chinese stamp making, Tenkoku

Twisting branches, fading spaces – sumi-e ink painting

I worked outside in the North of Glasgow with my friend artist Margaret Kerr, painting in my large sketchbook a 水墨画 suibokuga ink painting (style is also called sumi-e) of …

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6 November, 202015 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, Suibokuga, Sumi-e

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