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EcArtNow
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Determined to create my portfolio of ideas and circulate it -Always very stimulated by the creative ideas of others. Seeking refuge from the hateful bitter world of ‘X’
My little shop : ecartnowprints.etsy.com
Lorca - we all have heroes ..
#art #lorca #poetry
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Great App to fight Trumpism ..
Boycott USA Goods ..
‘DeTrumpez Vous’
#detrump #resist #shopping
May 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Happy spring to all BSky 😎
#landscape #plants #blossom
March 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Shen 神- This is the spirit. “ spirit is formless but resides in form .. “ Tsung Ping ( 375-444 AD ). An English experiment of ‘likeness’ by incomplete suggestion. A relaxed, accepting way of looking at the garden.
EC 197 ‘Garden Sketching.
#Art #prints #gatden #landscapes #painting
March 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A synthesis of various Art influences.
Qi Bashi 齐白石 (Chinese 1864-1957) ‘ likeness in Spirit thro unlikeness in form ‘ which may have come from Song Bin ( AD 375 - 443) -“ Spirit is formless but resides in form”
A composition of garden forms.
EC186 ‘ Garden Sketches’
#art #garden #prints #abstract
March 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Lots of Forest based Art work has resulted in several ‘Silver Birch’ works. Nature abstracted and the energy of the essence of Nature itself. Pollock referred to ‘ energy and motion made visible ‘ which is relevant to my thoughts.
So we have EC202 ‘Silver Birch #6’
#art #forest #landscape #prints
March 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
walking in morning light across fields and being caught in a shower of rain.
A total involvement in everything. A pictorial Poem to convey the experience of ‘Qiyan’ a Daoist aesthetic. Everything seemed to be moving and changing.
So we have EC 167 ‘Summer Rain’
#art #dao #landscape #prints
March 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
EC 273 ‘ in yellow ‘
A response to reviewing the Art of Unkoku Toeki.
Also -
The Japanese concept of "ma" (間). If time is restricted, if we have no space we cannot breath, we cannot grow. Thoughts on finding that space - free of noise. Every day so we can function.
#art #ma #japaneseart #toeki
March 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Looking at landscape and thinking about the slow geological changes over millennia.Thinking about the artistic ideas of Shizen 自然.
I always feel strangely mystical looking at an evening landscape.
We humans are in the position of being between placed Heaven and Earth
#landscape #art #prints #shizen
March 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Love it.
< photo credit :Mervyn Sequeira>
#canada #resist #ontario
March 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Just one of my favourite guys ..
Born 1427 Died 1509.
Shen Zhou
(Chinese: 沈周; pinyin: Shěn Zhōu,)

#art #chineseart #ming # artist
March 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
EC 352 ‘ The Conservatory’
We painters think a lot about composition, space, line etc. This is me : ‘ can we please STOP trying to sanitize , organize and oversimplify! There must be ‘Qi ‘.Energy,- life itself. Please .. !
Respect to Shen Zhou who helps me think.
#art #qi #artists #prints #plants
March 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
On reading Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass -
‘ Whoever you are holding me now in hand’.
EC 323 #1 “ Desperate people “
#art #whitman #prints #portrait #painting #artwork #artists
February 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🇬🇧Many congrats Canada 😁- I know nothing about Ice Hockey 🇬🇧 but that made my day .. 🏒🥅🏒
#hockey #canada
February 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
ECP 134 ‘Birdsong’
Random photographic collage - on the theme of ‘music’
#art #prints #photography #blackandwhite #collage
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
EC 251 Japanese Garden #4
Further experiments with
‘Splashed ink’ principles - thoughts on Garden compositions. Experiments with the principles of the Japanese creative aesthetic.
#art #prints #garden #haboku #artwork
February 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
EC 256 Japanese Garden #2
A playing with the principles of ‘Haboku’ or ‘splashed Ink’. An allowing of space and freedom in application of colour while considering principles of the Japanese aesthetic.
Amazing how it ‘works’ ..
#art #prints #japanese #garden #landscape
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I even have a collection of photos of Pavements. Where I live they are lovely abstract compositions - .. I think 😎
The ‘here and now’ is a wonderful thing. An exercise in making oneself intensely aware of the ‘now’ .
February 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
‘Kuro (黒) Shiro (白 ) and Aka (赤)
EC 211 #11
Abstract experiment with classic Japanese cultural colours. ( From a series )
#art #japanese #abstract #prints #kuro #shiro #aka #prints
February 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Loving the ideas of Classical Japanese colour theory using Red, Black & White. ‘Kuro (黒) Shiro (白 ) and Aka (赤) .. I enthusiastically created many abstract compositions. To see if they ‘say’ anything .. Loving the direct effective simplicity.
EC 212
#art #japanese #prints #kuro #shiro #aka
February 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
EC 117 ‘morning sun ‘
Outside my normal style - an experimental light & bright thought about Sunrise. An abstracted composition. Washes of colour simply applied.
#art #landscape #sunrise #abstract
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A simple walk down to the beach. An exercise in balancing a composition of fragmented random lines. Nature itself changing with excitement. Pastel on paper.
EC078 ‘walk to the beach’.
#art #landscape #prints #artists
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Love it .. ✌️
#bsky #bskyuser
February 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Always been an admirer of the seemingly effortless swirling landscapes of Tang & Song dynasty- ( Zhao Menfu - Wang Hui - Zhao Min)
Also the atmospheric landscapes of Samual Palmer ( eg. ‘ The Valley with Corn ) - so I thought I would pick up a black pen and imagine something.
#art #landscape #ink
February 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Feeling inspired by Kirchner woodblock prints and wonderful black and white work of Kiyoshi Saito ( Winter in Aizu ) - I pick up my best black pen. Marks & lines straight from the imagination.
#art #ink #landscape #deer #prints
February 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM