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.
François-Antoine Bossuet, (1798 – 1889) Belgian Would you like your drawings and paintings to be suggestive but not bound to too much detail? Take my Cityscapes Workshop May 11/12.
Fierce Women of Art In the same breath that I will say “please don’t ever refer to my gender before you refer to my work” I will share this list of lady artists, because … sometimes you have to be a big pill when society is sick. Huff, sigh, shuffle, and growl. Go get ’em …
Quotes: I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image. [Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting. An artist has to start without any conceivable purpose other than curiosity and …
We received a second postcard from Thailand! Nikki Barber, the League’s printmaking instructor is spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques. Nikki sent us another “postcard” via …
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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