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Thursday's Painting: Sara Sentada.

By Hand / 2

Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting. Today's watercolour is a 'copy' of a Lucien Freud oil painting.

By Hand

Practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, ...

think

Bealtaine

earrach spring primavera

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [seite]

  *  Na Zha Explores the Sea  *  The Monstrous Serpent Turns Over  *  Wei Tuo Offers the Pestle  *  Grinding Disk Sword  *  Closing the Form.

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [seis]

...  *  Slant Flying  *  The Left Side Holds Up A 1000 Lbs  *  The Right Side Holds Up A 1000 Lbs  *  The Swallow Pecks The Soil  *  The White Ape Offers Fruit  *  The Falling Flowers  *  Thrust Slantwise Up And Down  *  Slant Flying  *  ...

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form

entrenamiento

solsticio de invierno lunar eclipse

This winter solstice was 'brightened' by a Lunar Eclipse. Apparently the first such for about 2000 years.

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [cuatro]

Pluck the Stars and Change the Constellations * Scoop Up the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea * The Immortal Points the Way * The Phoenix Nods Its Head * The Swallow Pecks the Soil * The White Snake spits out Its Tongue

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [tres]

* The Black Bear Rolls Over Its Back * The Swallow Pecks the Soil * The White Snake spits out Its Tongue * Slant Flying * The Eagle and the Bear Vie with Their Wits * The Swallow Pecks the Soil

Chen Style Sword - 49 form [dos]

* nod the head * pull the grass in search of the snake * the golden cock stands alone * the immortal points the way * cover and block * the ancient tree entwines the roots * the hungry tiger attacks the food * the blue dragon sways its tail * the wild horse leaps over the brook * the white snake thrusts its tongue * the black dragon sways its tail * Zhong Kwei wields the sword * the Arahat subdues the dragon

Chen Style Sword - 49 form [uno]

preparatory form * opening posture * homage to the sun * the immortal points the way * the blue dragon comes out of the water * protect the knees * close the door * turn around and chop downwards * the blue dragon turns over *xie fei shi - slant flying * spread the wings

Happy Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, Lunar New Year

Here we are looking forward to restarted growth, renewed energy, positive thinking,
looking the tiger in the mouth: I keep reminding myself that "It is not enough to begin
doing something. You have also to persevere, until you finish doing it."

So, keeping up the practice ...

Once In A Blue Moon,

you get to visit a place you wanted to visit for a while back and it's surprisingly different in some respect to what you expected: Collioure at the winter solstice for example.

Once In A Blue Moon ,

you may walk by the willows and enjoy

Once In A Blue Moon,

I appear here, 3 yellow willows surviving the new works, a white anteroom is painted afresh and pictures hung, some old, some new. Plans are crystallising for next trip, our first to Venice.

It's a grand day when you ...

paint a picture

help a friend

sink and relax

practise forms and ba juan jin

replant your rosemarys to roomier, classier pots

Seeing Colour

Our colour vision developed a long time ago to enable our ancestors to identify the newer shoots. Two books, "The Making of the Fittest", By Sean B Carroll and Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish", both of which I read with much interest last year, make this point.

My next photo is showing an exerpt from the former, which interest me as one of the 8% mentioned, having difficulty with reds and greens, but not always. However, I'd probably fail on a navigation test!