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art, blue and gold, Boats at sea, collecting, illustrations of fairy tales, images, Pinterest, Zen
By Yuko Hosaka, a Japanese illustrator and printmaker
I’ve been on a Pinterest kick lately that’s taken me into the wee hours of the morning, searching for images to pin to my boards. I don’t know how to describe the pleasure it brings, searching through pages and pages of artwork and photographs to chance upon the perfect one that lights up my mind and makes me purr with delight.
Capturing these images to visit again and again on my boards feels like a real achievement. Like I’ve created these personal cupboards filled with rare scents I can sniff and swoon over to my heart’s delight.
I have 7 boards now. My first was Illustrations of Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales. I began collecting these when I was working on a blog post about childhood influences in literature and art.
Jessie Wilcox Smith – Water-Babies
✯ The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang :: Illustrations by H. J. Ford✯
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Marija Jevtic – http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grimms-Fairy-Tales/5411205
Story Book Sundays – The Wind – Illustrated by Ruth Hallock
More recently I started one called Blue & Gold because these are my favorite colors, and the two together does something to me that I cannot describe.
Maurice Sapiro, The Six Foot Sunset 48″x72″
The Sea at Dusk, watercolor by Emile Nolde
Galle, Sri Lanka
That one led me to create a board dedicated to images of the Sea & Boats. Blues and golds are featured here as well, and my life-long love of the ocean and sailing. There’s something that strike me as deeply feminine and mystical about the sea and the boats that sail there.
“Along the Nile” – by Sergej Ovcharuk ~ Oil
Konstantin Korovin, a Russian Impressionist Constantin Alexeevich Korovin – White Night in Nothern Norway – circa 1895
Howard Pyle: Attack on a Galleon, 1905 – oil on canvas (Delaware Art Museum)
Vincent Van Gogh
A newer board is The Art of Zen. Here is where I collect images that speak to the spare and subtle “imperfect” perfection that lies at the heart of things.
Six Persimmons, Mu’ Chi, 13th century Zen monk
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) – “Blue-03”, 1916
吴冠中江南水乡绘画艺术桌面壁纸
I hope you enjoyed this peek into my cupboards of delight. You can see more here.
Do you collect things on Pinterest? What and why? I’d love to see them.
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Awesome imagery. My favorite two colors are blue and gold also in honor of going to Cal!
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Thank you! I imagine my love of blue and gold comes from living here too.
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Oh me too Deborah! I feel exactly the same way. I have several art boards including those specific to my own work but also one for wabi sabi, another for kitchens and so on. People ask me how Pinterest is as a marketing tool and I confess that it is for me really even though there is people who discovered my work from the platform. I often do my “pinning” late at night to relax, maybe similar to how my grandmother would play a couple of hands of solitar cards. Frequently, I come back to a board and choose a few to open up and then dig through related works of art by a specific artist. Most fun!
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So glad to hear that Terrill! I just checked out your boards–wonderful collections!–and repinned a few. I’m thinking of starting another board called “Mothers and Lovers” after viewing your board on figures. So many of the ones I loved showed those bonds in beautiful ways.
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I know what you mean Deborah. It is simply practical to refine some of the boards by narrowing their focus. I need to start a new Landscape Impressions board though as the one I have is so large it is getting to cumbersome to browse.
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The Six Persimmons was used as the cover for Chang Chung-Yuan’s book, Creativity and Taoism, I had mentioned before. Nice to see it again. Also like, Along the Nile, and Van Gough’s painting! Thanks for posting these! What’s your Pinterest account name?
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Thank you, Ken. I found another one of the drawings Chung-Yuan has in his book to add to my zen board as well. I feel its a real treasure to have a copy of them. You can find my boards at this link https://www.pinterest.com/dbrasket51/
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Yes, I noticed that. There are several in the book.
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Deborah, I’ve always been amazed by the beautiful and evocative images you choose for your blog posts, so it seems like a natural that you would “curate” Pinterest boards. I love your aesthetic sensibility, and this goes a long way toward making me appreciate Pinterest’s potential for offering more than just a consumeristic fantasy zone (maybe my perception is wrong, but it seems many people using it for dreaming of what they want to buy or how they want to renovate their homes). You are multi-talented!
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I so appreciate that, Kelly. I do enjoy curating them, although I hadn’t thought of it that way. The truth is, I was looking for a way to move the images around to better suit my tastes and haven’t figured out how to do that. They pretty much stay in the order that I pin them.
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I so enjoyed your images some of which really spoke to me. Your choice of blue and gold speaks of majesty and awesome power and yet so serene. Such good choices. Thanks for sharing.
Betty
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Thank you, Betty. Yes, I think of blue and gold that way too–there’s a depth and serenity in the blue, and richness and delight in the gold–together majesty and power might just be the affect.
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How we perceive things? Through space between them or just by learned knowledge?
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Good question. All the above, I would say. Sorry for taking so long to acknowledge your comment. I’m not sure how I missed it before.
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Reblogged this on DesignCrazzie.
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Thank you for the reblog!
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I love Pinterest and at off moments will suddenly go into a pinning frenzy. The category boards and the unlimited possibilities are tantalizing and suit my loose style of organizing things better than any system I’ve tried before. I don’t feel too guilty about it. It looks like you are way more judicious than I am in selecting your pins, but the great thing about it, is you can adapt it to your personality. I will check out your boards and follow.
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I’m like that too, CJ, Ignoring it for weeks, them becoming a nightly obsession. Now that I’m painting, I go there for inspiration too, and to learn art techniques, and just to relish the brilliance of other artists.
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I have also started using Pinterest lately and I can relate to the hours that slip away when browsing! I love the pictures that you select and post. They set such a nice tone for your site.
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Thank you! And thank you for coming here. Please forgive me for taking so long to acknowledge your comment!
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