a land of Tibet

Through My Eyes

Continuing work on the hair of Tara Drolma! I worked more on the other side this time. I tried for a somewhat different effect here in that I was trying to show the body of the hair and the buoyant flowing within it as though the wind from Lake Yamdrok Yutso were just beginning to lift it up from her shoulders. We can see the beginning stages of modelling the braids! Some more views...

The braiding here isn't refined yet but it's coming along! It's an good exercise in seeing the whole while working on the individual elements because the look depends on both the movement of the braiding as a whole and the shapes of each part. We notice there's a fair bit of shaping to be done; some of the plaits don't yet look as if they are weaving over and under each other.

I've given the hair a bit more body in front and put in the hair part. We can see here her calmness that sustains her through trying circumstances. Her windblown hair portrays both her great shamanic power as I mentioned and the forces of change that have come to Tibet. Like the advanced practitioner that she is she continues calmly through the changes "striving on with awareness" as the Buddha once described it. This is another of the abilities of the Tibetans that has enabled them to survive the occupation of the Chinese army and the destruction of much of their material creations. Then too it is why those material creations are so quickly rebuilt as soon as there is opportunity- while the temples were razed to rubble the spirit never left as we know well!

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* courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for

the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.


	Through My Eyes * Continuing work on the hair of Tara Drolma! I worked more on the other side this time. I tried for a somewhat different effect here in that I was trying to show the body of the hair and the buoyant flowing within it as though the wind from Lake Yamdrok Yutso were just beginning to lift it up from her shoulders. We can see the beginning stages of modelling the braids! Some more views... The braiding here isn't refined yet but it's coming along! It's an good exercise in seeing the whole while working on the individual elements because the look depends on both the movement of the braiding as a whole and the shapes of each part. We notice there's a fair bit of shaping to be done; some of the plaits don't yet look as if they are weaving over and under each other. I've given the hair a bit more body in front and put in the hair part. We can see here her calmness that sustains her through trying circumstances. Her windblown hair portrays both her great shamanic power as I mentioned and the forces of change that have come to Tibet. Like the advanced practitioner that she is she continues calmly through the changes "striving on with awareness" as the Buddha once described it. This is another of the abilities of the Tibetans that has enabled them to survive the occupation of the Chinese army and the destruction of much of their material creations. Then too it is why those material creations are so quickly rebuilt as soon as there is opportunity- while the temples were razed to rubble the spirit never left as we know well! please click here to continue... * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.