Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: neocolor

The Neocolor II crayons are water soluble, hence one can leave the colors, as applied, to include the texture of the paper or touch them with a wet brush and let the colors flow. Ink and Neocolor II on 8 by 11 inch sketch paper

Ink and Neocolor II on 8 by 11 inch sketch paper

Just thinking about performance music and what a hard way it is to make a living.... Neocolor II Crayons on colored stock, 12 by 12 inches.

Neocolor II crayons on colored stock, 12 by 12 inches.

This is the direction my dream, the night before last, was supposed to go instead of tangenting to Fritz Lang! ;-) As I noted earlier, I'd been thinking a lot about and viewing the works of Kasumi Bunsho. Bunsho shared a fondness with Nantembo (an earlier Zen sumi-e master) for depicting lines of monks heading off on their begging rounds, the practice to instill humbleness and gratitude in the monks. Bunsho was the 642nd abbot of Myoshin-ji, the head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen. So! Here I can't say this is 'in the style of' Bunsho -as I'm used Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons, rather than sumi (ink), but at least in the spirit of... Neocolor II on 12"X12" colored stock.

Oh well, the title says it all. Neocolor II crayon on 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" colored stock.