http://www.cindyjsullivan.com Painter | Printmaker Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:23:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The multitude of stars is the late night's light alone above a cliff before the moon sets the perfect luminescence the unpolished glow hanging in the sky is my mind - Han Shan (Cold Mountain) Thinking about Cold Mountain and the moon, I wrote this poem... The boy looked into the moon the wind the hum of insects the noise ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2008/01/03/the-boy-and-the-moon/ Sometimes books find us. I recently went to the bookstore and scoured the art section for a book, something on illuminated manuscripts but didn't find anything, so I thought I'd go to the religious section, hoping there might be one, but again nothing. As I left something caught my ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/12/27/illume/ The Tientai Mountains are my home mist-shrouded cloud paths keep guests away thousand-meter cliffs make hiding easy above a rocky ledge among ten thousand streams with bark hat and wooden clogs I walk along the banks with hemp robe and a pigweed staff I circumambulate the peaks once you see through transience and illusion the joys of ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/12/21/cold-mountain-poem/ On a recent trip to visit family, I came across a book in my grandma's library (a tiny bedroom stacked full of books) about Montserrat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat_(mountain) where part of our group visited during the trip to Barcelona. In the book was a picture of a monk's cell. It was small, ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/12/13/ora-et-labora/   OBRES - Barcelona street rubbing My grandmother gave me a book called Oriental Brushwork by Wang Chi-Yuan. One of the chapters is simply titled Painting is Work. I love this thought. Just ponder over it. Painting is work. I recently took a class that went to Barcelona to study Catalan ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/10/04/painting-is-work/   ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/09/27/the-moment-between-moments-series-of-paintings/   This painting is in progress, I'm about 2/3 done and have work to do on his face. It is based on a print by Choensai Eishin (1789-1801). He was influenced by Utamaro and the lives of the young people of the era. Hawking was a popular sport during Eishin's time among the ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/09/20/22/ Term Project - The Three Sitters by Cindy Sullivan based on the print Three Famous Beauties by Kitagawa Utamaro Deciding what to paint has never been an easy task. Narrowing down your ideas can be even more difficult, and when you start painting those ideas and finding out they were not quite ... http://www.cindyjsullivan.com/2007/09/13/japanese-prints/