Buddha Japanese Character

This month’s themed event invites artists to use Red and lots of it! This scan has come out a little orange but you get the idea. This is in Kanji style which is a loose style script and I enjoyed the challenge of making the character pop out.

The buddah figure painting is of my lavastone Balinese buddha which sits in my garden outside of my studio window here in Hood River. I painted it once before but this one seems to pop more too.

I painted these while I was on a meditation retreat in Malaysia this month. Dragon Fire Gallery’s exhibition theme is celebrating the Chinese New Year,” Year of the Tiger” in February. It should be a lot of fun. There is another one of a tiger laying in bamboo looking back at the viewer but I can’t seem to get it inserted into this post without greatly compromising the layout.

Yesterday, despite the crazy rain, Travis and I installed my Buddha art reproductions and new originals into the Flow Yoga boutique here in Hood river, Oregon…yippeeee!! The feedback has been awesome already and it all looks so pretty..am I allowed to say that about my art? Thanks Stephanie, Lora and Julia for your help. Namaste.

It has been a busy two weeks, finishing four paintings for presentation at my booth at the Yoga Conference in early October. I have also been spending time, meeting online other artists from around the world either through LinkedIn or Facebook and even though our planet continues to face challenging times, I can say that there is an abundance of beautiful, beautiful art being created to help keep the energetic balance. So let us focus on that balance and how we can all make a difference, just doing our own work either within or without and know that is enough sometimes.

Also, this painting was horribly cropped as it didn’t fit on my scanning bed so sorry about that.

One of the reasons I haven’t been painting too much lately is that I’ve been spending what feels like endless hours trying to understand social media and its importance to my growing business. I have signed up on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Biznik and I’vealso  joined a few online art  groups.  I am now enjoying some really nice dialogue with other artists and good connections are being made which is totally amazing.

This week I finished two paintings  ( this one to the right is titled “Surrender to the Flow of Existence”) that will be a part of a collection that will either be displayed at Flow Yoga starting in September and/or at “The Yoga Conference” in Vancouver, Canada where I will display my YinspirationArt buddha reproductions for the weekend of October 3rd and 4th.  They are expecting over 5,000 people and North American yogi and yogini community leaders will be there showing and sharing their philosphies and practices.

Check out their website:

http://www.theyogaconference.com/sites/S2/index.php?p=72&location=vancouver

I am also thrilled to announce that my Surf and Buddha Art exhibition of reproductions at Grounds Cafe and Espresso Bar here in Hood River has been extended to the end of September, woohooo! Curator Myah Bailey of BenjaminBenjamin Art gallery got that ball rolling for me, so thanks Myah!!

http://www.groundhoodriver.com

Here is a little watercolor I just finished of Auguste Rodin’s sculpted figure of a condemned man and in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke, “The man who carried the key. In him there is still life enough for many years to come, but all of it is compressed into this final hour.”

I haven't used watercolors in around 7 years but this was fun.