The story goes that when Avalokiteshvara looked down upon the suffering of the world two tears of compassion fell from His face and from one came Green Tara, and from the other came White Tara.
I've always loved the story but I've never seen it depicted.
So the composition is my own but is made up of traditional elements.
I've sanded and primed and sanded this table down to a smooth perfection and now I'm at the slow stage of transferring the grid drawings of the Deities to the surface of the table with transfer paper.
Using transfer paper is part of a terrifying experience that I think only artists are privy to; the experience of tracing something complicated and time consuming and not being able to see whether or not it's actually working. I can spend hours working on a transfer and I will have no idea whether or not it's taking until I've completed it and lift up the paper. If you lift it up before you're finished you risk ruining the entire thing. Most of us that have used it have a story about lifting up the paper and discovering they missed and important line, or something shifted and it's crooked, or even worse...they used the wrong side of the transfer paper and there's nothing there at all.
Thankfully, that isn't happening to me. All is going well. I just have a busy day job schedule right now and this takes time.
Here's the thumbnail, I don't usually show them but *shrug*
