First piece...
not the first piece that I ever did, just the first piece that I'm going to showcase.
Recipient: Chou Fei-Hong
Event and Date of Assignment: War of the Roses XXIII K & Q A & S Archery Champions – Barony of Concordia of the Snows on 5/24/03 (AS 38)
Documentation:
On the scroll...I painted the bamboo. The reason I chose to paint bamboo is because it is one of the 4 traditional plants in Chinese paintings. Bamboo is referred to as the "Perfect Gentleman", which I though perfectly reflected the nature of the recipient of the award.
My dad did the calligraphy...he wrote on the top left hand corner, the recipient’s name in Chinese. Below that is a famous poem that says, “Work, if you don’t do work, you don’t grow. The Road, if you don’t walk down the road, you cannot arrive” and under that is my dad's name (in Chinese (mandarin) his name is "Shr Ti Fun") and he states that he did the calligraphy. On the bottom right hand corner is the date and my name. My chop and my dad's chops are on it (chop is a seal carved in stone with your name on it. They were pressed onto white rice paper and glued to the scroll - to show the color contrast).
The scroll itself was a pre-made blank scroll. It is high quality rice paper mounted on silk. The time period for this style goes back to the Han Dynasty when the Chinese first painted on paper and then mounted it on silk (prior to this they painted directly on the silk). The poem that is on the scroll is by a Chinese scroll that is approximately 1000 yrs old. It is in the old style literary language, poetic form (in modern Chinese is form is literally translate into "white language" or everyday language). The words on the scroll are a poem that basically explains that he's a hard worker and that's how he got where he is.
As for the medium used, the bamboo and calligraphy are done in ink where the Chinese ink stick is rubbed into an ink stone with water until you get the color you want, which is very dark black (takes a good 20 minutes of grinding the ink stick). Then I watered the ink down to paint the stalks. In traditional Chinese painting, the stalks are a lighter gray with dark joints shoots and leaves.
The award is an AOA for a gentleman that's been in the SCA over 10 years...he is a hard worker who has contributed much for his Kingdom and barony.
*Please NOTE: I originally did on plain rice paper with gold speckled paper to back it, but in the process of backing it...it got ripped in half! HORROR STORY from this weekend. In order to make it up to me my dad gave me the pre-made scroll that he had had and that's what the final scroll is on.*
Recipient: Chou Fei-Hong
Event and Date of Assignment: War of the Roses XXIII K & Q A & S Archery Champions – Barony of Concordia of the Snows on 5/24/03 (AS 38)
Documentation:
On the scroll...I painted the bamboo. The reason I chose to paint bamboo is because it is one of the 4 traditional plants in Chinese paintings. Bamboo is referred to as the "Perfect Gentleman", which I though perfectly reflected the nature of the recipient of the award.
My dad did the calligraphy...he wrote on the top left hand corner, the recipient’s name in Chinese. Below that is a famous poem that says, “Work, if you don’t do work, you don’t grow. The Road, if you don’t walk down the road, you cannot arrive” and under that is my dad's name (in Chinese (mandarin) his name is "Shr Ti Fun") and he states that he did the calligraphy. On the bottom right hand corner is the date and my name. My chop and my dad's chops are on it (chop is a seal carved in stone with your name on it. They were pressed onto white rice paper and glued to the scroll - to show the color contrast).
The scroll itself was a pre-made blank scroll. It is high quality rice paper mounted on silk. The time period for this style goes back to the Han Dynasty when the Chinese first painted on paper and then mounted it on silk (prior to this they painted directly on the silk). The poem that is on the scroll is by a Chinese scroll that is approximately 1000 yrs old. It is in the old style literary language, poetic form (in modern Chinese is form is literally translate into "white language" or everyday language). The words on the scroll are a poem that basically explains that he's a hard worker and that's how he got where he is.
As for the medium used, the bamboo and calligraphy are done in ink where the Chinese ink stick is rubbed into an ink stone with water until you get the color you want, which is very dark black (takes a good 20 minutes of grinding the ink stick). Then I watered the ink down to paint the stalks. In traditional Chinese painting, the stalks are a lighter gray with dark joints shoots and leaves.
The award is an AOA for a gentleman that's been in the SCA over 10 years...he is a hard worker who has contributed much for his Kingdom and barony.
*Please NOTE: I originally did on plain rice paper with gold speckled paper to back it, but in the process of backing it...it got ripped in half! HORROR STORY from this weekend. In order to make it up to me my dad gave me the pre-made scroll that he had had and that's what the final scroll is on.*
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