Posts Tagged “sumi-e”

After – way after – a 13th century painting by monk Mu Qi.

If you squint at it, you can sort of see the bird.

This is why, in the old days, you had to grind ink for a year before they let you touch a brush.

Starting a sumi-e class.  It’s not so much the ink or the subject matter, it’s the way of seeing.