There was a lovely workshop at the League this Saturday, taught by a master of many sumi-e painting styles, Angie Dixon. Whereas Asian artists traditionally study with one teacher, as a Westerner, Dixon studied for years from many teachers, broadening her education with master teachers in several areas of China and Japan, giving her both the traditional techniques and the expansive view of a wide variety of approaches within the medium. Students loved this richly informative and welcoming class.
“It’s not easy, but it’s relaxing.”
I snuck a few pictures of the work today.
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
Demo by Angie Dixon
Beginning Sumi-e Student Work
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Today’s VOCABULARY Challenge: Pogonotrophy Create something in response to the word Pogonotrophy – The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair. #pogonotrophy Media is always artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, or hack a furball. Post it To be eligible for prizes (yes prizes!) at the …
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Yesterday I wrote about Bonnard’s sketches, and included an unkind description of his wife Marthe. “Bonnard’s wife Marthe was a difficult and neurotic woman who spent a disproportionate amount of her day in obsessive washing and bathing. Thanks to this quirk, Bonnard made many intimate figurative works.” I had read that Marthe was neurotic, difficult, …
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Beginning Sumi-e Painting Workshop with Angie Dixon
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Demo by Angie Dixon
There was a lovely workshop at the League this Saturday, taught by a master of many sumi-e painting styles, Angie Dixon. Whereas Asian artists traditionally study with one teacher, as a Westerner, Dixon studied for years from many teachers, broadening her education with master teachers in several areas of China and Japan, giving her both the traditional techniques and the expansive view of a wide variety of approaches within the medium. Students loved this richly informative and welcoming class.
I snuck a few pictures of the work today.
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
Demo by Angie Dixon
Beginning Sumi-e Student Work
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