Traditional Japanese calligraphy ink, referred to as sumi ink, comes in a solid form. It takes at least four years of production before these ink sticks can be sold, and even longer for the most ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The hiss of highway traffic seeps into Yumi Hogan's fourth-floor classroom through windows, muffling a fluttery recording of Asian music. For an instant, the room feels empty, ...

Sumi-e, literally “charcoal drawing,” is a form of Japanese ink painting brought from China in the 12th century. Students learn to grind their own ink and execute the primary sumi-e brushstrokes to ...

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, “Tremble, Trample” (n.d.), detail, acrylic and Sumi ink on paper, 120 x 300 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I first encountered the paintings of Katherine ...

Members of the Washu-Kai Japanese Brush Painting Society will hold demonstrations explaining the technique of sumi-e this weekend at Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. Imported from China to Japan in the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. While playing the remake of classic JRPG Walk Over My Corpse on the PSP, I couldn't help but be dazzled by its traditional Japanese "Sumi-e" art style ...

If Zabeth Cornelius-Knudsen could describe art as anything, she would equate it to a meditative practice. The Pacific Beach resident, yoga therapist and artists dove into her creative side during the ...