This workshop is for beginners, those wanting to refresh their practice of sumi-e or to progress their practice further.
Sumi-e, ink painting, is the traditional art form of Japan. In this workshop we will learn and practice the traditional method of brush stokes, posture and mindfulness necessary to produce a sumi-e painting. We shall revise and move through the “Four Gentlemen" (bamboo, orchid, plum and chrysanthemum), which give us our basic, necessary brush strokes and onto other traditionally Asian subjects.
Each person will move at their own guided pace as it is not the finished painting that is important but an understanding of technique, water and ink control, type of paper and the essential mindfulness necessary to produce, not the perfect representation of an object but the essence of it. Being able to understand the essence of a subject is vital to sumi-e.
“In sumi-e are the eloquent descriptions of the complex and infinite universe, while the blank space is equally eloquent with its silence of nothingness.” Motoi Oi in Brush Stokes of Sumi-e Painting 1963.
$250 AUD INCL ALL MATERIALS AND LUNCH
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