jimoneilalaska (AKA: Jim O'Neil on ipernity)
Bunsho's Monks
This is the direction my dream, the night before last, was supposed to go instead of tangenting to Fritz Lang! ;-)
As I noted earlier, I'd been thinking a lot about and viewing the works of Kasumi Bunsho.
Bunsho shared a fondness with Nantembo (an earlier Zen sumi-e master) for depicting lines of monks heading off on their begging rounds, the practice to instill humbleness and gratitude in the monks.
Bunsho was the 642nd abbot of Myoshin-ji, the head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen.
So! Here I can't say this is 'in the style of' Bunsho -as I'm used Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons, rather than sumi (ink), but at least in the spirit of...
Neocolor II on 12"X12" colored stock.
Bunsho's Monks
This is the direction my dream, the night before last, was supposed to go instead of tangenting to Fritz Lang! ;-)
As I noted earlier, I'd been thinking a lot about and viewing the works of Kasumi Bunsho.
Bunsho shared a fondness with Nantembo (an earlier Zen sumi-e master) for depicting lines of monks heading off on their begging rounds, the practice to instill humbleness and gratitude in the monks.
Bunsho was the 642nd abbot of Myoshin-ji, the head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen.
So! Here I can't say this is 'in the style of' Bunsho -as I'm used Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons, rather than sumi (ink), but at least in the spirit of...
Neocolor II on 12"X12" colored stock.