Si Kaoru | Zen winding pottery | Blue and white plate

Jul 3, 2022

Finally completed the blue-and-white-style blue-and-white plate that belonged to the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in my heart.

Today is the day of the blue and white meditation class. Even if it rains heavily, it will not reduce the interest of the class. This class directly challenges the extended art of meditation. The teacher said, "We are an advanced class." This shocked me, I was the first Once I drew this blue and white Zen circle, I really had no confidence.

🌿 Admired classmates, come from afar

There are classmates who came up from Kaohsiung and came down from Keelung. I really admire this kind of learning spirit, and they are all super amazing. After reading their works, I am really embarrassed to take out my own work, but Teacher Qingyan, really I will encourage my classmates, so that I can be proud of myself from setbacks and share today's learning experience.

In the first half, Teacher Qingyan led everyone to understand the extension art of meditation, Zentra.

🌿 Zentra

First review the five elements of meditation

· point

| Line

S-curve

C arc

○Spirits

🔲 draw border

1. Pencil point 4 points

2. Point-to-point connection to form a border

Zentangle pattern

1. Muka (line) is also known as the "Queen of Zen Circles"

2. Flow (Organic Patterns)

3. Geometric pattern

Use the Zentangle pattern to design your own blue and white plate pattern. There is no right or wrong in the Zentangle world. Let us see ourselves. When we are depressed, we choose the pattern of magnificence. This resonated with me a lot.

🌿 Course Topics

It is based on the blue and white style of the Yongle Emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

[Jie Su Yingran, very suitable for heart] is the praise of Emperor Yongle for his beloved porcelain. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, named Yongle (1403-1424), was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty and reigned for 22 years.

Among the porcelains of Emperor Yongle, the most representative ones are sweet white, blue and white and red glaze porcelain. The sweet white glaze color was created in Yongle, quiet and elegant, creating a new look of white porcelain. The shapes of blue and white porcelain are rich and changeable, and there are many new shapes produced by cultural exchanges. The red-glazed porcelain is bright and bright, and it has also become the object of imitation by later generations.

In the second half, Mr. Huang Yuying taught everyone to draw the pattern on the plate. The difficulty increased again. As a beginner, I really felt that I didn't know how to write. I thought it was because I used 2B strokes to draw the plate dirty. Teacher Qingyan told me that this hand must be lightly drawn to avoid this. The classmates replaced the mechanical pencil with me. It was really like what the teacher said.

When I started to lose confidence, the teacher started shouting again. When the paint was applied, the traces of the pencil would not appear. At this time, I had the confidence to continue to finish. The sketch of the pencil was completed, and it was colored with cobalt oxide. This is for me , Coloring is the beginning of the difficulty. It is really not easy to color the paint in one go, and the color is uniform. Finally, it is completed. There are certified Zentangle teachers and masters of Zentangle painting. They are really beautiful. My own Creation is like your own child, no matter how you look at it, it will be more pleasing to the eye.

It's my first time to draw, and it's incredible that I can finish it ^^

Because of hyperthyroidism, it makes it difficult for me to relax, my hands can’t always be very gentle, I really feel healing and relaxed through the wrapping, ㄧ I didn’t draw well at first, I really didn’t know how to write, and finally let myself go and feel free and bold The painting, no longer entangled in beauty and ugliness, was successfully completed, and I hoped that the finished product would be burnt.

Teacher Yuying said, glaze firing

Underglaze painting requires a high temperature of 1230 degrees

On-glaze painting requires a high temperature of 800 degrees

This blue and white plate was fired at high temperature for 12 hours

I can really experience such a great course, I have gained a lot, and I feel like a sauna, I have multiple feelings, I am super happy to receive a gift from the teacher.

🌿 Teacher's gift

The glass that Yuying made by hand is really beautiful

Teacher Qingyan's writing is super cute and really healing

Thanks to the gilded mask from Mr. Chan Rao, who came to Taipei from Kaohsiung to teach, the lucky grass will bring luck

Teacher Qingyan is very attentive and paints a gilt totem on the cover of the pen

The difficulty this time is really much higher. The class that originally ended at 18:00 was abruptly drawn to 19:30. It was really worth it. The teachers said that this is a three-class class, and it is directly advanced from the elementary level to challenge everyone’s ability, but The moment when everyone is done is really great.

Everyone tells themselves not to be nervous and to relax, but they all understand the truth. It is really not easy to do, especially at the moment of painting on the plate. I am relaxed, happy and have the courage to try different learning.

Everyone drew the blue and white plate, it's really beautiful! I am looking forward to the finished work. With the blessing of Teacher Yuying, we can all have beautiful blue and white artworks from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. We are full of expectations.