Painting a Day - Quiet Buddha
September 30th, 2006
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This week’s theme for Illustration Friday is “Quiet” and I can think of nothing quieter than the serenity of meditation, so I chose an antique statue of the Buddha to represent that idea. As I painted it, slowly and quietly on a 4″ x 6″ piece of smooth gessoed wood panel, I felt some of that same peace drift over me. Slow painting can be a form of contemplation in itself.
The original statue was stone, but I decided to represent it instead with a surface suggesting marble or polished rock, to suggest an inner radiance.
Very nice. I love the buddha!
Fabulous! I love the Buddha and have a little statue my dad gave me of a very peaceful quiet Buddha. So graceful. Yours is lovely.
MD
Beautiful…
Very serene, and lots more 3-d than my buddha!
Sometimes painting can be a meditation in itself. Lovely painting!
That’s absolutely incredible. I love it. I also love that you share so much of your work and that you work *every day*.
You’re an inspiration!
Beautiful and serene–a pleasure to see. I love all the Buddhas on art blogs the past couple of weeks. Last night in figure drawing group I realized how much my monkey mind was chattering while I drew. I then tried to use it as a time to practice meditation instead of having to listen to boring and stupid mental chatter. Though I still want to return to my meditation practice some day, I’m finding art can be meditation too.
Beautiful.
I like it.
Very calming. There’s a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Melbourne that we visited one afternoon, with a very tall white statue as well as other smaller statues and carefully planned garden. A calming experience just to visit, even though we are not Buddhists.
W.
Very nice. It looks just like statues I see!