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.
Not all sections of a surface are equal. Movement, space, and placement can be used to suggest time. Within the composition we can infer a sequence, a past, and a future. In part, this is due to how we read. Generally, we read top to bottom, and left to right. Within a scene in a …
When I went to college, my interests were broad. After going to community colleges for 6 years, I chose to transfer to a university instead of a specialized art school because I wanted to continue taking classes in a wide variety of subjects: philosophy, biology, music, art, linguistics, writing, everything I could get my head …
Usually when people draw, they draw a thing, and then that thing floats in a kind of nothing space called the “background.” But what would happen if you didn’t draw things? What would happen if instead of things you drew the space between things? What would it look like to draw the air or the …
“so that anyone with an interest in art… can pursue their dream” ARTS AND CULTURE New School Art School: Seattle Artist League Puts People First The new Northgate [art school] offers flexible, community-centric art classes BY: MEGAN TOAL | FROM THE PRINT EDITION OF SEATTLE MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2018 League founders Lendy Hensley and Ruthie V. This …
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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