Here's a small ink wash with water color overlay of my wooden Buddha and some spare change...
And here he is with the plastic dinosaur I found buried outside of my house...
I just thought they were interesting pieces... but if you want to be all scholarly about it I suppose you could address the irony of the Buddha with money... and then the common factor between Buddha and Godzilla.... Okay, okay... so one is Japanese and the other actually originated in India... but this Buddha looks more like a Chinese Buddha so we can just slap an Asian theme tag on the last one...
Seriously though, I enjoyed doing these... You wouldn't think that there would be so many different colors on a tiny red wooden man... but just set him near a window and wipe the dust off and you'd be amazed... it was really fun trying to figure out what colors to put where on him since it's watercolor and we all know how unforgiving watercolor is. Maybe some of you don't so I'll just tell you that it's a really unforgiving and mean medium which made Buddha all the more challenging and fun :)
If you're in Columbia sometime this summer, these bad boys will be up on the Bubblecup gallery wall starting in July, hooray!
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