More brush Romans – but not your gladiator’s Trajans!

Lao-Tse: We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel, but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends. Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

I’m still having a good time with the flat brush and Romans. This was a response to an online prompt – Postive:Negative. I was going to do it in black and white, but I had a leftover palette of gouache. (I always have a leftover palette, and I hate to wash color down the sink.) Kaerell #4 flat brush on some white butcher paper.

Lao-Tse’s quotation seemed appropriate for the prompt as well: “We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel, but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends. Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.”

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