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.