This post follows on from one I wrote previously on ‘Rinsho’. Below are two painting I made in woods in my notebook.
With the art of Rinsho, the idea is to practice your calligraphy by copying, from books, that of the old masters. I like to think of the paintings made in the field, so to speak, as like those versions made by old masters and that copying them is like trying to reimagine a past event, where the body is trying to echo, through the gesture of painting, that of the original painter sitting in the woods; trying to imagine the trees, the sky, the sounds etc.
These are some of the copies I made of the characters above.
