Temple

Last week for my Art of China class my professor (who reminds me of the butler from the Adam's Family) took us out to the nunnery, that I had been to the first week I got here, and another local temple. It is pretty cool because people put in their own deities/shrines and pray to them there so the temple isn't really dedicated to any one god.

They had these huge statues of all the animals from the zodiac, here is mine the ram.

Here they had this fortune thing that you knelt in front of this shrine and got a little bucket full of little sticks that had numbers on them and what you did was shake it while thinking of a question you wanted answered until one of the sticks fall out. You then right down the number and then get a slip that answers your question.

This is the paper I got, I asked Professor Cheung, who is a Hong Kong native, to translate it for me. All of the fortunes are in the form of old Chinese stories mine was about this man who was a really good son to his parents even though he's parents were not exactly what one would call nice or good people. They all lived on a farm and the son would work tirelessly everyday on this plot of land that was not fertile and good to farm on, but eventually he was able to make the land prosper. At least that is how I remember it went.

And also Day 2 of my sketch a day! Today's prompt was to draw your favorite animal. I wasn't planning to spend as much time on it as I did but I think it turned out pretty well. I'm hoping this challenge will help me to draw faster since it usually takes me forever to finish anything.