Master sumi-e painter Angie Dixon demonstrates the bamboo joint, bone, and leaf brush strokes.
Dixon says a great sumi-e painting combines a variety of wet and dry, light and dark, thick and thin brush strokes. She says you can’t fix a brush stroke, but you can enhance it.
Demo by Angie Dixon
Beginning Sumi-e Student Work
[gallery ids=”13492,13491,13490,13489,13488,13487,13486,13485,13484,13483,13482,13481,13480″ onclick=”link_no Today’s Beginning Sumi-e workshop with Angie Dixon sold out. She will be teaching another workshop here soon. If you are interested in studying ink and don’t want to miss the next workshop, send us a note. We’ll send you a special invitation as soon as it’s posted.
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …
League instructor Jon Patrick is teaching a class on artist’s books. One of the works mentioned in his class today was this collaboration between Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. Jorn and Debord were part of Situationist International, and CoBrA. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line From Wikipedia: Mémoires (Memories) is an artist’s book made by the Danish artist …
In South India, kolam is a daily ritual that beautifies home thresholds with its mathematically based designs. During festivals like Pongal – a harvest festival that marks the end of the traditional farming season and the beginning of the harvest – kolam becomes more complex and colorful. In this post I share suggestions about how …
What would you do if you loved to draw, and then you went blind? For two years now, Kathy Paul has been a regular in my drawing classes. When she started in figure drawing, I admired her uncommon and interesting way of recording the forms. Then on March 3, 2019 Kathy suffered a stroke in …
Beginning Sumi-e Painting Workshop with Angie Dixon
Student’s table
Demos
Master sumi-e painter Angie Dixon demonstrates the bamboo joint, bone, and leaf brush strokes.
Dixon says a great sumi-e painting combines a variety of wet and dry, light and dark, thick and thin brush strokes. She says you can’t fix a brush stroke, but you can enhance it.
Demo by Angie Dixon
Beginning Sumi-e Student Work
[gallery ids=”13492,13491,13490,13489,13488,13487,13486,13485,13484,13483,13482,13481,13480″ onclick=”link_no Today’s Beginning Sumi-e workshop with Angie Dixon sold out. She will be teaching another workshop here soon. If you are interested in studying ink and don’t want to miss the next workshop, send us a note. We’ll send you a special invitation as soon as it’s posted.
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