Welcome to ArtBrush Online School for Japanese Ink Painting
ArtBrush will assist you in developing your skills in Japanese Ink Painting while giving you a deeper appreciation for this tradition within Japanese art history.
Our online school's step-by-step courses are designed to allow you to practice brush exercises, guiding you in creating your own ink paintings while experiencing the meditative nature of the process.
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TESTIMONIALS
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INSTRUCTOR
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COURSES
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The Foundation Course covers the four traditional themes for the beginner ink painter student. These are bamboo, plum-blossom, wild orchid and the yellow empress, known as the chrysanthemum.
Summer flowers and insects course is a more advanced course to guide you how to paint water irises, wild roses, beautiful hydrangeas, and grand peonies. You will also learn to paint dragonflies, butterflies, ants and bees and discover how to add these insects to your composition in such a way that they will enhance your painting.
Wild flowers and grasses course offers an easy step-by-step tutorials in how to paint seven wild flowers and grasses. Create your own beautiful Japanese ink paintings of poppies, grasses, gentian, fennel, cyclamen, dandelion and thistles.
Each course also includes a tools and materials check-list, pdf worksheets to make for your practice work-book, a soul meditation, and bonus compositions for you to practice in your own time.
LESSONS
ArtBrush lessons
Lessons are single, focused courses on one specific subject.
Each lesson also includes a tools and materials check-list, pdf worksheets, and additional compositions for you to practice in your own time.
Please note: some lessons are included in the ArtBrush Courses.
MANUALS
Manuals: Text-based learning
Manuals are written guides to assist you in your Japanese ink painting experience.
MEMBERSHIPS
ArtBrush Memberships
Memberships provide you with an all-rounded, in-depth learning experience for your journey in Japanese ink painting.
ArtBrush expanding library provides you with writings and essays on the history of Japanese ink painting.
TOOLS
The tools and materials needed for ink painting
The four main tools and materials used in this practice are brush, paper, ink stick and ink stone. Known as 'the four treasures', these carry a long tradition of craftsmanship in their own right and their quality varies from a simple student's kit to a highly-prized, collectible, hand-made sets. Paper is made of various percentages of kozo fiber (made from the bark of mulberry bush). It can vary in thickness, shade and size. The brush, made of natural animal hair, varies in hardness, size and shape. The ink stick, known as sumi, is made out of soot or coal dust, traditionally mixed with essential oils and natural glue to form a solid stick. This black solid ink has a range of shades of black and a variety of translucency. The ink-stone, known as suzuri, is traditionally made out of slate, which has a rough surface upon which to grind the ink.
STUDENTS
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