Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Art and Beauty Tuesday

For today's Art and Beauty Tuesday, I have embedded a YouTube video showing Kazu Shimura drawing a sparrow in ink.  I love the different textures and even colors he gets just with black ink. There is much beauty in simplicity.

Drawing in black only, like writing haiku, can lend a certain freedom and creativity from the somewhat artificial parameters set by the medium.

5 comments:

  1. you always amaze me with your poetry, and art shows on the blog. wonderful yet again!

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  2. Fantastic Video. I love the reminder of the power in the most simplistic things. Thanks for sharing. Tweeted to my followers, all 63 of them. :-)

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  3. I love Japanese art. He handles the brush with such control and restraint. I could never do that because I can't see the image in my head first and my tremor wouldn't let me do such fine work. It's so inspiring to see great talent like this.

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  4. The painting is so beautiful and detailed in its simplicity. I'm glad you liked it.

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