Ancient Chinese painter Sung Ti said the following:: "You should choose an old tumbledown
wall, and throw over it a piece of white silk. Then morning and evening
you should gaze at it, until
at length you can see the ruin through the silk, its prominences, its levels
its zigzags, and its cleavages, storing them up in the mind and fixing them in
the eye. Make the prominence your mountains, the lower parts your water,
the hollows your ravines, the cracks your streams, the lighter parts your
nearest points, the darker part your more distant points. Get all these
thoroughly into you, and soon you will see men, birds, plants and trees
flying and moving among them. You may then play your brush according to
your fancy, and the result will be of heaven, not of man.” (p. 114).
Text is From A History of Chinese Pictorial Art by Robert Giles (1918)
Retrieved on November 11, 2014 from: https://archive.org/details/introductiontohi00gileuoft
Image is a detail from one of my Natural Effects paintings.
To read the exact quote go here:
at length you can see the ruin through the silk, its prominences, its levels
its zigzags, and its cleavages, storing them up in the mind and fixing them in
the eye. Make the prominence your mountains, the lower parts your water,
the hollows your ravines, the cracks your streams, the lighter parts your
nearest points, the darker part your more distant points. Get all these
thoroughly into you, and soon you will see men, birds, plants and trees
flying and moving among them. You may then play your brush according to
your fancy, and the result will be of heaven, not of man.” (p. 114).
Text is From A History of Chinese Pictorial Art by Robert Giles (1918)
Retrieved on November 11, 2014 from: https://archive.org/details/introductiontohi00gileuoft
Image is a detail from one of my Natural Effects paintings.
To read the exact quote go here:
Acrylic and Paper on Canvas, 10 x10
Acrylic and paper on canvas
Contemporary Design 8, Multicolored and Black, Acrylic on linen fabric, 70 x 72, 2011
Acrylic stained and peeled paper on wood panel, 18 x 24
Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 36, 2012
Acrylic on Silk, 45 x 70
Acrylic on Silk, 45 X 70
Acrylic on Silk 45 X 70
Acrylic on silk, 45 x 70
Acrylic on silk with paper, 45 x 70
Acrylic on Silk, 24 x 30
Acrylic on Silk 45 X 70
Acrylic on Silk 45 X 70
