This week I felt like getting out the ol' fude (bamboo brushes) and working on some sumi-e. The smell of the ground ink was really nostalgic. I even got out my old notes from Sensei - much to the improvement of my ume painting!
I also found some interesting videos on sumi-e on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/blueheronarts. The artist is from a Chinese background so some of the techniques are a little different but as sumi-e was developed from Chinese ink painting, the essentials are the same.
I'm not normally such a fan of pink (really alizarin crimson) this set just sort of ended up that way- purple finch, ume, rhododendron...
The borders I slapped on in photoshop from some chiyogami I scanned.
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