Zen Wall Art

Zen Wall Art

Beauty is a simple concept. All beauty comes from nature, and it is by our very natures that we respond to things which ar beautiful. This construct is so intrinsical to the human condition that it is in many ways primal, and despite the best effort of certain designers, there is no way to completely tame beauty. Even the most modern or delicate styles will be based on primitive yet powerful concepts which are hard wired into our brains.

When it comes to a time it is important to understand the symbolism of the piece. A Read the rest of this entry »

Zen Buddhist Art

Zen Buddhist Art

Surely, you have seen images of the practitioners of Buddhism sitting in the lotus position. Those familiar with such a posture are undoubtedly aware that when practitioners ar in such a position they are meditating. Without a doubt, speculation can be considered one of the most vital components to the practice of this eastern religion.

Yes, if there was one component that most people were familiar about when it comes to Zen Buddhism it would be the art and skill of meditation. Now, while most people are familiar with the conception of meditation, they are probably Read the rest of this entry »

Zen Buddhism Art

Zen Buddhism Art

Zen is a term that is bandied around in common language with great freedom. Here, a Zen practician and artist, Eden Maxwell, author of “An Artist Empowered” tells us how these realms interconnect.

Janet: What does Zen Buddhism have to do with art?

Eden: The source of all great art is intuition; I say this because spontaneity, creation, cannot be planned. Planned art is design, and that’s another(a) subject.

Janet: What about the art in Zen Buddhist tradition?

Eden: In Zen Buddhism, the fundamental concept is to Read the rest of this entry »

Zen Art

Zen Art

Zen art emphasizes the essence of the subject, in that a statue of a graven marble ball may be the earth, a marble, a beach ball, or a falling tear. Once the artist decides that the subject is a tear, he may act in a flurry of motion, dizzying in its intensity as he hacks and hews at the marble, grinding it to a smooth polish as helium journeys on his way to completion. To the Zen artist, deciding on a subject is well over half the battle of finishing a piece of art. This may well be the Read the rest of this entry »

Yellow Bamboo

Yellow Bamboo

Lucky bamboo plants and lucky bamboo stalks are supposed to be a lovely, healthy green. Sometimes, that’s just non the case with the plants we have in our homes. If you have Lucky Bamboo that has suddenly made a color change here ar three reasons that may explicate what has happened.

LIGHT

Bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) grows in nature under the canopy of overhanging branches and trees of the rain forests. In its natural home it receives indirect sunshine filtered down to it.

In order to duplicate its natural Read the rest of this entry »

Water Bamboo Plants

Water Bamboo Plants

Whether you have a green thumb or not, it does not matter. If you buy a bamboo plant it will be one of the easiest things you have ever taken care of in your life. As long as you treat it right and keep it alive you can benefit from the calming beauty of the plant for years.

After you make your bamboo plant purchase, take it home and pick a place for it to live. A place that gets some indirect sunshine is the best thing for your new plant. Find a place that is Read the rest of this entry »

Water

Water

Clean water can be a hard thing to find, but if you can produce your own you will always know what you ar drinking.

Traditional filtration and purification systems that treat tap, well water, etc, still require an incoming source to treat and purify no matter how effective they may perform. Bottled water can be cumbersome, difficult to store, overpriced, and depletes existing ground water sources. In the event of a national, or local emergency that could disrupt water supplies ‘water from air’ gives you the freedom to extract, harvest, and generate a sustainable daily supply Read the rest of this entry »

Wall Paintings

Wall Paintings

Do your walls look dull and uninviting? Do you long for a cozy, welcoming room? Consider decorative wall picture techniques, such as sponging, ragging, stenciling or stamping. Even if you have no experience, you can brighten even the dullest room quickly and cheaply with one of these easy cosmetic wall painting techniques.

Before painting your room, pick out a color scheme for your walls. When you chose your paint, remember that many painting techniques use two shades of one color. If you ar using one of the techniques that does use two shades of color, you Read the rest of this entry »

Variegated Bamboo

Variegated Bamboo

There ar as many types of bamboo plants to choose from for your garden as there ar uses for the plant itself. Over 1000 species of bamboo in 90 genera have been described and named and there may well be varieties waiting to be discovered. Bamboo plants grow astatine various high in various ways with various leaf lengths and shapes. Variety should non come as a storm considering how many areas of the satellite in which they’ve evolved. Bamboo spans the globe from the United States to Asia to Australia and can now be a beautiful addition to your Read the rest of this entry »

Types Of Bamboo

Types Of Bamboo

There are a lot of dissimilar styles of bamboo fencing, and choosing the right one for your back yard depends on your taste and the kind of décor you’re looking to achieve. Almost all commercially available bamboo fencing will come in either rolls or panels. The most common kind will be made of long poles with a diam of approximately 1″ or of thinner canes about ½” in diameter. These poles or canes will be held together by heavy-duty galvanized wire.

This kind of framework, rolls and panels come in woven bamboo also. These consist of Read the rest of this entry »