Mahamayuri

Art 4 Piece 6. I chose to develop my altered book entry for "Glory". Originally in the altered book I tried to do a gold wire outline of a peacock, with the crown enlarged and stylized. It did not work, and turned out very dissappointing. So, I ix-nayed the wire altogether and did my outline with gold acrylic instead. It worked much better. I also filled in the body with a peacock feather pattern and used black acrylic for the kanji in the back- it just says "peacock" (or at least I hope that's what it says).

Why kanji? My inspiration for this piece (to tie it into my concentration) is the Hindu/Buddhist diety Mahamayuri vidyarajni- the peacock diety of wisdom. You can read about it here: http://fudosama.blogspot.com/2006/04/kujaku-myo-o.html

Fountain

This is for the "woven painting" project. My subject/theme is the mythical fountain of youth. For the first watercolor I used predominately yellow with some green, the second was predominately red with some purple. Weaving the two straightforwardly did not work out well for me, so I cut out unequal strips of various length and wove those. I think the end result is passable but not spectacular (which is fine by me. I did not like this project very much).