ARTS: Konoha Gallery

[Nengei]

Greetings, artistic Sangha,

Welcome to the Konoha Gallery! This thread is an ongoing place for you to show us your creative, two-dimensional works. Paintings, drawings, digital images; basically, if you created it by moving something like a pencil or a brush or a stylus across a flat surface, please put it here for your Sangha to enjoy and (positively) comment on. We really do want to see it!

Any painting or drawing, whether created as a zenga (a Zen, sumi-e ink painting or calligraphy; the classic example is an enso), a modern abstract painting, or a quick sketch for your kid's lunch bag, they all deserve attention here. The rule is that you must be the person who created what you post in this thread. It is totally fine for you to post your copy of another artist's work, usually accompanied by "With apologies to [Michelangelo]" or "after Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus."

A note on comments: Please feel at liberty to express your appreciation and encouragement for other's work. Please do not feel at liberty to critique, offer advice, or instruct. This is a zone of encouragement.

To prove that any level of work is welcome here, I offer an early Nengei original:
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Gradient Squares

And to restore your eyes, I will offer a later painting:
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Yixing Teapot (2020). After an original photograph
by Kevin Murphy. Oils on loose cotton canvas. 9x12 inches.

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

[Jundo]

Just a note that Konoha is "Treeleaf" in Japanese. Our Sangha's "official" name in Japanese is the "Ko no ha" (木之葉) Zendo, in which the first character means (and looks like) a tree (木), the "no" (之) is a possessive (like an apostrophe 's in English), and the final kanji (葉) means leaf. So, it means "tree's leaf" or "leaf of the tree" ... Treeleaf. Here is the name written by Nishijima Roshi as it hangs over our Zendo door in Tsukuba ...

Gassho, J

STLah

[GrasshopperMan17]

20210117_1511222.jpg this is a drawing i did recently of my best friend on the internet. he goes by Lolthulhu, and hes someone i really admire and look up to as a friend and human being. this was drawn from a photo his wife took of him fixing his bike. i will be posting more photos soon!

Gassho, John

[GrasshopperMan17]

Spirit.png this is one i did to try my hand at digital drawing. i like how it turned out.

Gassho, John

[Nengei]

Wonderful, creative work, John! Both of them. Thank you for sharing these with us and for telling us about your friend.

And welcome to Treeleaf!

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

[GrasshopperMan17]

Thank you Nengei! Much appreciated. I will post some more of my artwork tonight.

Gassho, John

[GrasshopperMan17]

20180910_130039 (1).jpg this is a self portrait i did about 6 or 7 years ago of myself listening to music. drawn from a photograph.

Gassho, John

[GrasshopperMan17]

20180910_125022.jpg this is a landscape drawing i did of a beach i saw while on a train, again 6 or 7 years ago.

Gassho, John

[GrasshopperMan17]

11990398_153416221667421_8630854440279652529_n.jpg this is a stylistic fish drawing i did 6 or 7 years ago. its blurry because its been downloaded so many times, as i gave away the original years ago.

Gassho, John

[Horin]

I was sitting with my kids drawing stuff, so I decided to draw a dragon.
It lived for 7 minutes and disappeared into impermanence.

Gassho

Horin

Stlah

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[Nengei]

More nice work, John! Remember to do sitting Zazen each day before posting, and note that under your name: "Sat today" or "ST." It's one of our ways of stressing the importance of Zazen.

Horin, wonderful! A fiery dragon, indeed! POOF!

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.

[GrasshopperMan17]

Thank you, Nangei! Yeah, i just saw the post Jundo made about that yesterday night, apologies for the mistake!

Gassho, John
Sat. LAH

[GrasshopperMan17]

Nice dragon, Horin!

Gassho, John
ST LAH

[Kiri]

Just a note that Konoha is "Treeleaf" in Japanese. Our Sangha's "official" name in Japanese is the "Ko no ha" (木之葉) Zendo, in which the first character means (and looks like) a tree (木), the "no" (之) is a possessive (like an apostrophe 's in English), and the final kanji (葉) means leaf. So, it means "tree's leaf" or "leaf of the tree" ... Treeleaf. Here is the name written by Nishijima Roshi as it hangs over our Zendo door in Tsukuba ...

Gassho, J

STLah

Some manga/anime lovers may recognise the name Konoha from the Naruto series. The village of the protagonist is called Konoha village or Konohagakure and the official translation of the village is "Village Hidden in the Leaves" or "Hidden Leaf Village". Just a quick fun fact
Nikolas,
Sat/Lah

[Horin]

Another dragon

Gassho

Horin

Stlah

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