Ink on paper

Fingerprint - RainBlack ink on paper. 42x30cm

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Li Jin at the Aman Summer Palace October, 2012.

Specializing in fine 18th-20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints: Shinoda, Toko (b. 1913 - 2021),

I'm going to try to squeeze in a little post here about the drawing workshop I'm taking with Leonard Ragouzeos at North Country Studio Workshops. We are working with India ink on Yupo paper. Watch out! I will not be able to resist the urge to demonstrate some of these techniques.... Meanwhile, some pix: Ann working on a figure Kathy working on her Javelina My third composition My first composition My second composition Someone else's figure Someone else's figure Vicki's figure Ann's fiigure…

Stuff that inspires me and the odd bit of my work; past and present (but not future - that's impossible).

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Abstract, gestural painting related to mid-century minimalism and Japanese Shodo – Created with Sumi ink on Xuan paper mounted in layers with colored Washi and Hahnemühle sumi-e paper – Original art available via my site – prints via Artfully Walls

Late last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China,” the institution’s first survey of contemporary art from the country. Situated within the museum’s Chinese art galleries, the exhibition interspersed the old with the new, adding context—or, perhaps, simply conserving space. In the permanent Ming Scholar’s retreat, an […]