Bhutan bowl

A short post tonight.  I've been playing around with my printer all day and didn't have much time to take a photo.  So....this is a "singing" bowl we brought back from Bhutan a few years ago.  As a instrument for meditation, you use the wooden paddle to rub around the edge of the bowl and it makes a beautiful ringing tone.  Different size bowls make different pitched songs.  The meditative quality comes from maintaining the ringing which takes focused concentration.  It becomes the focal point of the meditation.

To create this soft color, I processed this image using a duotone method, combining a pale golden yellow with a light periwinkle blue.