Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: brushed-ink

Listening to some great music the other night and... Brushed ink on 12 by 12 inch card stock.

Sumi-e, brushed ink on 'rice' paper. 21 by 14 inches.

尊卑 or そんぴ which might be pronounced sonpi (Hopefully one of my nihonjin buddies will correct me if I'm wrong) means something like aristocrat and plebeian. Japanese kanji are fun! The first one making up this compound kanji, 尊, means something like revered, valuable, precious, noble or exalted. The second one, 卑, means lowly, base vile, vulgar. So! One could translate this as aristocrat and no account common trash. :-) Speaking of how interesting kanji can be, I was going to go into a long explanation of why the old name of Japan Wa, 倭, given to them by the Chinese, was, in the eighth century, changed to Wa, 和, as the old name for Japan. ….-but I won't. :-) Brushed ink on 12 by 12 inch colored card stock.

A blind man, an ant and a serpent crossing a chasm on a log. Slightly after Hakuin Ekaku,(白隠 慧鶴), 1686 - 1768, Zen Buddhist monk/artist. (He painted Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge) Hum. The snake will make it across OK, as will the ant -but the blind man? Perhaps it as Goso said, “To give an example, it is like a buffalo passing through a window. Its head, horns and four legs have all passed through. Why is it that its tail cannot?” (By the way: Hakuin Ekaku felt this one one of the eight brain frying koans {Hachi Nanto} necessary to understand if one wants to get their journeyman union card as an enlightened Buddhist.) Brushed ink (sumi-e) on "rice" paper, 13 1/2 by 24 inches. Unmounted.

I'm still just playing with my new pentel brush/pen. Brushed ink on 12 by 12 inch colored card stock.