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Tag archives: drawing & painting

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

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

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

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

Vista painting and punky rocks at Traprain Law

It was peaceful working with artist Margaret Kerr (please have a look at her beautiful and mesmerizing work: @megkerr245 on Instagram) in East Lothian – Margaret kindly invited me over …

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16 September, 202016 December, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, photography, Scotland

Kusen 255 collaboration with John Fraser

Dragons see palaces (heavy rain is falling) In the Mountains and Waters Sutra, Dogen says that when human beings see water, fish and dragons see palaces. He doesn’t say that …

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20 June, 202022 June, 2020Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: drawing & painting, John Fraser, Kusen collaboration

Happy Valentine’s Day 2020

Happy Valentine's Day 2020
14 February, 202014 February, 2020Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

Kusen

After zazen when we chant the Heart Sutra we are chanting the short condensed version – heart/essence – of the massively longer Great Real Wisdom Perfection Sutras (an early Mahayana …

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14 August, 201915 August, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: drawing & painting, sketchbook, Soto Zen, Zazen

Small sketchbook drawings Ardfern – perception/intuition

14 April, 201728 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: drawing & painting, sketchbook

flux – interchanging – equalising

8 March, 201728 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: abstract, drawing & painting

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