Comments on: Sumi-e

By: benedictedelachanal

benedictedelachanal — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:19:30 +0000

Thanks Bernie, I like your tech vocabulary, binary thing. Spectrum of goodness is interesting too, but I think that art brings a first emotion in the binary thing, it is a yes or a no and then the reasoning comes and apply the spectrum of goodness.
Thank you for looking and commenting and ranking me not too low on that spectrum.

By: smartpeopleiknow

smartpeopleiknow — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:01 +0000

Good/not good is a binary thing. FWIW, I prefer to think of most things people do as being on a spectrum of goodness. Compared to Shakespeare, with Shakespeare being “good”, most (all?) playwrights would be “not good”. But of course we would miss out on alot of wonderful plays if playwriters thought that way.

I think your work is really good, and like all artistic work, will only get better! So keep up the good — no, great! — work.

By: Louis Dargin

Louis Dargin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:46:18 +0000

I have not painted any since the last three years or so. I have done quite a bit of practicing, and have probably gotten a lot better. I do not have a web site, but if you were to give me an e-mail address, I could send images of three of them. I will also send one of a peony that I painted and really like.

By: benedictedelachanal

benedictedelachanal — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:17:41 +0000

Aletha, j’ai beaucoup rigolé! Mon prof japonais n’était pas aussi démonstratif mais il y avait un peu de ça!

I see that the 2 years delay brings questions. The teacher told us that in Japan there were classes only on bamboo and first doing trunks, and then when mastered ,graduating to leaves. It looks very simple but in simplicity it is very hard to obtain nuances.

Louis, where can I see your bamboo?
I have also to say that I took 2 sessions of 8 courses, not 2 lessons, it was not clear in the text.

By: Louis Dargin

Louis Dargin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:02:18 +0000

I paint the bamboo, and learned to with sweat as I had no natural artistic skills, but you definitely appear to be a natural at Sumi-e. I do not understand why you should paint the trunk for two years before trying the leaves. The trunk is actually rather easy to paint or write.

By: alethakuschan

alethakuschan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:57:09 +0000

Two years of trunk before trying the leaves? (Does that rule apply for the tree, too?)

By: alethakuschan

alethakuschan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:49:26 +0000

Alors, l’etudiant est plus fort ici quand il joue le role du critique.

By: alethakuschan

alethakuschan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:39:55 +0000

Le prof japonais etait un peu sévère — un peu comme ça:

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:38:58 +0000

Lovely brush work…glad you found them.

By: benedictedelachanal

benedictedelachanal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:00:24 +0000

Thank you all very much for your nice comments and encouragements.
These drawings are exercises to me, because I was copying from books and trying to reproduce the same effect. It was very interesting to learn more about the technique.
I did try bamboo too, but when the teacher told me that normally you do two years of trunk before trying the leaves, I got discouraged!