I chose to draw the Buddhist ‘Three Stages of the West’ for my independent project, with "Amitabha Buddha in the middle, representing infinite light, infinite life and boundless merit and virtue; Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on the left of the Buddha, representing great compassion; and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva on the right of the Buddha, representing joy. I’m working on the painting of Amitabha Buddha right now and I still need to add some details and finish up the hands. The use of complementary colours, emphasis and light texture is included in the painting. Here are some pictures of my process and progress: So why did I choose to draw Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for my project? First of all, I am interested in different religious beliefs and thoughts, and I noticed that some people around me don’t really know what Buddhism is, so I wanted to introduce Buddhism to more people through my painting. This project will introduce the general themes and main ideas of Buddhism.
Buddhism first started in the 6th to 5th BCE in ancient India, and the founder was named Siddhartha Gautama. He left his home at the age of nineteen and started to cultivate himself and embarked on his journey of finding his true self. Subsequently, when he attained enlightenment and found real wisdom, he was honored as Buddha, meaning the enlightened one. The religion he passed on is called Buddhism. Buddhism teaches dependent origination (meaning cause and effect) and the emptiness of existence. Everything that happens to you is based on what you did previously. Buddha told us everything that happens to you has a reason. Every flower and plant that blooms and grows is because of the seed you planted, and what kind of seed you planted will define what plant is going to grow. I think the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is that everyone can become Buddha. It is really fun creating these kinds of paintings and I wish to do more of these throughout the year. I hope you learned something about Buddhism that you did not know before, thank you.
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There was a "Celebration of Learning" event at my school on Thursday before the winter break, and it was really fun. There was a "theater place" for all of the films that the VAM&CAPA 10s did and there's posters for the film outside that was made by the VAM 20s, the VAM10s had there art works put on a easel and the Vam20s had a gallery walk place to show there work. The music students had there performants in the gym and I watch some of it online and it was amazing. There were also CAPA Christmas performants, Christmas decorations made by the wood work students, Christmas cookies and a scene from "star wars" made out of food by the culinary art student. My family really enjoyed it as so did I. It was a really fun experience and I feel like it's really cool to have a chance to look at what other people are doing whether we're in the same academy or not. We all played a fantastic role as a individual and as a group, some of us came in before to help set up, and some of us stayed after to help take the stuff down, some of us were rotating shifts to supervise the theater, some of us were explaining our art to other people, and we worked together to make sure it all went together! Even though it went amazing after all, there's still thing that I think is needed to do to make it more interesting. For example, I feel like the work that I put on the art show was not my best and that I don't have much to choose from since we have to choose the art work that we did in school. I realized that maybe if I draw more in school time, then if we were to do something similar, I have more art to choose from. This was the first big event that I joined in school and even though there's things that I need to improve, I'm really glad I joined and participated, I learned while having fun and I think that's the most important part.
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