Thickets bristle from rooted centers. Spikey, thatched, like bottle brushes or porcupines, but instead of sea urchin forms, I saw kimonos and reed-capes hatch across my page, throwing down round blank dice at the edge of an autumn field.
Painting about Kanzan and Jittoku (Japanese), or Han Shan and Shih-te (Chinese); they are characters from the Buddhist tradition.
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Remember drapery?
Flowing swirls and tucks, swathing bodies, piling up on chairs and floors? Cottonwood bark sheathes white cottonwood core wood in rough draperies, flowing along branches and around burls.
Prismacolor pencil on watercolor underpainting. Easy to scratch up on a dinky, wobbling table in a tight-squeeze trailer dinette, jolting in blustery late winter weather.
Having fun!
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