Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
26.2.2013 Technique of writing, ink on pastel paper, ca 31x41cm
0 comments Posted by Trine at 8:20 pm
26.2.2013 Technique of writing,
ink on pastel paper,
ca 31x41cm framed,
for sale
A few years ago I painted quite a bit in the Chinese brush painting technique and looked at calligraphy, then for some reason I started testing out other techniques. Yesterday I brought out the materials and played around a bit. Today's painting is a calligraphy work.
The characters are pen (top)+law which together makes "technique of writing". The mount and frame are part of my complete composit...ion.
China is so much tradition and also so much a modern coming country. Art and literature also has the two components tradition and modernity, the old and the new. I have tried to use both aspects in this work in topic, style and materials.
Tradition, order or the law, the rules if you like say that the characters are horizontal or vertical, mine are diagonal. Normally they are of fairly equal size, Mine are of different size, and I’ll get back to why. But even with these changes there is some feeling of order in it, some system to it.
This is a Westerner’s painting and the characters are probably quite naively painted in the eyes of an oriental calligraphist. That is OK, because naïve is my style in painting also when doing western style works.
Normally the paper is white shuen (rice) paper which behaves very differently from western paper. I have used a paper normally used for pastel work. The ink, and ink brush is Chinese, but a modern kind. I do have the proper ink sticks and grinding stones to do it the traditional way but this time I used a modern version which is a brush pen with an ink cartridge system.
The mount is a simple one but with the tiny sophistication of the black inner lining that enhances the black in the characters. The frame a very simple unpainted wooden one.
As an artist, a reader, an art lover and most of all a teacher I mean and say that the most important thing is that some kind of content or message gets a reaction from a receiver. Of course as a teacher I think spelling and grammar is important, rules and techniques are, but only as an addition – not alone. A technically perfect painting or story which does not engage my thoughts or emotions has nothing no matter how perfect the lines are drawn or the spelling is. No law is good unless it serves the people. That is why the last character is slightly smaller in my painting.
Watching the painting the pen character looks back at me, the top 6 strokes turning into eyes. This aspect that even if taking away the real meaning of the characters it is an image – of something, intrigues me. The human mind is so focused on seeing faces that we so easily do that.
I am myself very happy about how it turned out: The combination of old and new, of simple and complicated, of the two characters having individual meanings but also a new one when together as well as being an abstract image, of it all working well together.
I hope you liked it too and enjoyed more detailed background information this time.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
I am getting hooked on learning kanji, the chines/japanese signs. Studying the socalled yoji jukugo with their often old meaning or wisdom is a great way to learn. I definately need to get some mounts and some nice simple black frames to make these come out properly.
yoji-jukugo meaning 4 kanji idiom
"Undying Love" Original chinese brush painted calligraphy.
Ink on watercolour paper, size 5.5x7in+ mount.
Price: $ 20 unmounted.
kai = ocean,
sei=to swear,
san=mountains,
mei= alliance
In other words: An undying love that is unchanging forever like the ocean and the mountains. To vow eternal love. 
Black necked Stilt
ACEO (2.5x3.5")
$10 +p&p
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Hi, today I brought lots of the learn japanese kanji signs to work as well as materials. My students really enjoyed having a go at calligraphy.
My daughter came home for a quick visit today too and the sun was shining all day. In other words life has been very good to me today. Here are a few birds on artist trading cards made by using 240g watercolour paper.
From the top there is Flamingo, Parrot and Heron1 and Heron 2,
I also worked on the 5 elements and hope to show you those tomorrow
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Hi
Today I have had a wonderful day! The sun has been shining all day and I was able to work on both my painting skills and my tan at the same time. No demonstrations for me on this International day for Workers. As I continued to study Japanese/Chinese signs I came to think about a time in my youth which I uaually don't think much about. At some time in my very young age, before my kids and when I still wanted and believed I could save the world. And LOL before my joints and back went crazy on me. - Then I studied homeopathy adn acupuncture. I had totally forgot how much of the Oriental philosophy I read that period. Working on calligraphy today brought it back and I wish I could have spent the next days just continuing. Well, we'll all have to make a living, don't we. Anyway, I enjoyed my life tremendously today living in the present letting the sun warm me up and I had happy memories of the past and lots of exiting plans and dreams about the future. In other words, a perfect day.
Her are a sample of my work from the last days.
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