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Painting by Numbers
lobster
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Long time since I 'painted' on my Ipad. Here is
Milerepa done today. 
Any art work you have done lately to share?
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thats cool lobster . i like it. my art interpritation: reality reaching out from a place of beauty.the hint to me is the distorded flower shape --which is to me--caught my eye.i use to be an art major.we would gather around and critique our art.
I thought it was the Predator.
I don't know what "' painting" on an ipad is, but i like the art.
How come Milarepa is all red? I thought he was green from eating nettles?
She started green enough as a raven. Using an Apple pencil and Ipad tablet, lets you go back and forth through the Milarepa incarnations ...
Many thanks. Painting a Bodhi is an act of devotion and an expression of our nature. Be interested in any dharma art from our majors ...
I'm hardly an expert on what makes good art, but those look good to my eye. I find the colors and shapes appealing for whatever reason.
hi lobster.at the moment my browser is limited.cant upload pictures . maybe i'll buy a laptop in the future.surely i can upload then.
art is fun.it exercises our creative reasoning.
It looks like a lotus rising out of a pond ...
You have just got a one track mind
@paulyso ... maybe you can take a mobile phone pic and upload, perhaps from a public library. Not sure what to suggest for USA ...
The raspberry pi (I have three) is a cheap, secure computer that connects to an HDMI TV ...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/tag/art/
thanks lobster.i'll look into it.
@lobster, do you have a full resolution version of any of those paintings. I’d love to download one. My dad does life drawing and I really appreciate the way he uses colour, never the shades that you’d expect: neon purple and yellow outlines on a black background, etc. I think he’d enjoy seeing your paintings, as they look similar to me. I like them very much
Thanks @adamcrossley
Remember I am doing these on a Ipad tablet with a stylus (apple pencil) I am not any more than a determined dabbler ...
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/24154/i-haz-crayons
Highest resolution I have for the first image
No mud, no Milarepa...
I’ve just realised, (s)he looks like (s)he’s farting flower petals
I was going to comment how nice it was until you mentioned that. Anyhow, did you do it, if so how?
..."A rose by any other name would smell as sweet;".....
In tantra we are sometimes taught that mindful farting, orifice evacuation is an offering to the hungry ghosts and hell realm dwellers ...
... not sure they can digest flowers ...
I liked the background.
Using nothing more than filters, I played a little with your image
Where’s the proof dear lobster, where’s the proof. These latter-day teachers and their myths play fast and loose with the buddha’s ehi passiko.
Tee hee.
My sister had the same reaction ... I iz bad ...
and now back to the ... where were we again?
I did do it, but it was traced from another image, so it doesn’t really qualify as “art”. Maybe I’d call it a mindfulness practice.
@lobster, thank you for your collaboration, it’s very whimsical.
@adamcrossley makes a good avatar. I am using it as a desktop background ...
Dear Friends of the Buddha,
Whilst waiting form Apple Pencil to charge ... it was at 4% I decided to visit the hell realms or it may have been the Psychedelic Purelands ... sometimes difficult to tell.
Anyway here is the proof ...
I see a little silhouetto of a man Woman....
Yes @federica it is Queen Quan Yin, the female Buddha ...
The Dalai Lama is another version/personification of the original ...
As is your fav ... Madam Tara ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin
Charged my Ipencil.
Created an abstract garuda and cosmifried it ...
i have an image of her sitting on the lotus holding a vase and flower.her icon helps me to remember a woman can be a buddha.long live quan yin.
Enlightenment and Buddhahood are genderless. However:
From here.
federica,yes.there is still some residue of male-oriented view.in which case tara buddha is a great counterpoint.
im all about equality.i believe it is the buddha way.
After a trip to the galleries of Vienna recently, my partner and I are doing a lot of painting. I painted this placemat and coaster using the colours of the Tibetan prayer flags, inspired by the feeling of clarity, like bright mountain air, which they evoke in me.
May they bless my breakfast every day now
Better artist than me.
Self portrait as a Whirling DuhWish
Better artist than I ...
(Oh bloody fekking hell!!)
(Sometimes, I REALLY hate myself....)
@lobster, that's really rather good....!
Many thanks.
(for those unaware, @federica is aflicted by extreme gramma correction) tee hee
Yes. It is both a blessing and a curse - a form of literary OCD.... Useful when people ask me - "Fede, is it 'defiantly' or definately'..?"
Neither. It's 'Definitely'.
Mind you, I have been known to stretch my own rules....
There are rules? I may have it all wrong ...