Bodhidharma Sumi-E

I was believing Bodhidharma was Japanese. Because I played a game called "dharma-san" a lot. This is said "tag" in my dictionary. (as always no idea for the right words) anyway, everybody knows a tag called dharma-san ga koronda. and lots of designed dharma figure coloured red are here. even I loved to have a "dharma box lunch" at Takasaki station which was on the way to the country house. It futures the dhrma face(see the link). So my image of dharma is from this box lunch and thought evry kind person like a priest in the cinema.

The real bodhidharma was not like today's deformed one. He was very stubborn and severe. He was from India, so he got large eyes and long nose. I was surprised at Hakuin or Sesshu bodhidharma paintings because they have very severe dharma san.

Tips:

1. Front neckband is the key to draw the tradional asian figure wearing kimono style clothes. I made the hard line first which was inspired by the Hakuin's line and Sesshu's cave rock line.

2. First, light black (more water than usual) is on the eyebrow, then before getting dry fully, put more black stroke added. So you can get some depth, profound expression.

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• arts
• crafts
• japan
• Bodhidharma
• buddism
• sumi-E
• ink
• painting
• だるま

[jenacorn]

Lovely painting. I really appreciate it when you show the prep work on the side as well as your painting.

Tag is a game played in the USA. One person is "it" and they chase the other players around. When a chased player gets tagged (touched) by the "it" player, the tagged player becomes "it" and the chasing continues. Every game can have slight variations and conditions added, but that is the bare bones of the game.

[kazushimura]

thanks!

so the game I mentioned is not "tag".... I remember Stephen King's novel called "it". and I played tag. the same rule as the USA.

anyway, dahrma-san is familiar with kids here, but the image I have to him is not like what he was.

[OckGal]

That's scary! I watched "It" today AND Stephen King showed up in my dream this morning.

[kazushimura]

wow, that's real syncronicity?

[OckGal]

That looks amazing!

[kazushimura]

thanks OckGal, and how have you been?

[martysgotmail301]

does any one know about the fact that bodhidharma was an indian who was a son of a south indian pallava king. he got converted to buddhist and travelled to china and created the shaolin temple. he taught a famous south indian martial art called kalari to the chinese which they named it as kung fu... i thought that chinese were the founders of kung fu but now we know that they had learned from us . check wikipedia for "bodhidharma" & u would know the truth....

[cuvtixo]

@ghostexorcist 摇滚乐!

[ghostexorcist]

@cuvtixo 能

[cuvtixo]

@ghostexorcist 无 (Wu)

[cuvtixo]

@ghostexorcist  無 MU!

[ghostexorcist]

@cuvtixo Correction, the novel was published in a magazine serial from 1904-1907, not in the 1920s.

[ghostexorcist]

@cuvtixo ... And calling him the "patron saint of all martial arts" is not valid either because countries all over the world have their own combat systems. Not all martial arts emanate from the east, they are ingrained in every culture due to war. Pictures of boxing and wrestling appear on Egyptian Wall carvings. The Greeks had Pankration. The Medieval German school of fencing also had its own form of joint-locks. Attributing the martial arts to Damo is just a "fad" at this point in history.

[ghostexorcist]

@cuvtixo Shaolin attributed their martial strength and military prowess to the Bodhisattva Vajrapani as far back as the 9th century and as recently as the early 20th century (over 1000 years). Shaolin has only considered Damo to be the creator of their arts for a few decades. The first source to actually connect Damo to martial arts comes from the 1920s, and it was written outside the monastery in a satirical novel. So, only this generation of Shaolin considers him to be the creator ...

[cuvtixo]

@ghostexorcist The Shaolin Monastery itself credits Bodhidharma with the introduction of martial arts there, and notice the difference between the phrase "patron saint" as opposed to "inventor." And certainly the martial arts of China (then Japan) dominates the modern world. It is certainly correct to say he was patron saint of all martial arts.

[dezmireanucristinac]

Thank you so much for your beautiful creations!!