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Welcome to ArtBrush library This library is designed to support and enhance your learning journey with ink. It has an extensive writing about tools and materials you would use, and a detailed essay about how to mount your final piece in the traditional way. It includes a selection of writing about the mindset of the ink artist practitioner to inspire and deepen your practice. Ink painting, is the most ancient form of drawing known to exist, and is well rooted in the history of China and Japan. And so, included in the library a section dedicated to the history of this art-form, with fundamental notions and ways of how to consider viewing it. Finally there is an introductory section to calligraphy, which is an essential practice for the ink artist. Feel free to download, print and bind it in booklet format, so you can use it along your studio practice. I hope you will enjoy the library content, that it brings more depth and wonder to your journey with ink. Talia Content ✥ Understanding your tools and materials Ink Ink stone Paper Brush Water-dropper Seal Japanese watercolours How to care for your tools and materials ✥ Mounting your painting ✥ Mindful Notes for the Ink painting artist Learning Japanese ink painting - introduction The six canons of brush painting Avoiding the banal What makes a painting original? How to make a simple line? Mastering the power of ink and brush Learn from the pine ✥ How to look at Japanese ink painting - essays Haiga - painted poetry or poetic painting The great Dream - Looking at one zen ink painting Footprints of enlightenment - The ink painting of Zen master Hakuin Rosetsu - 18th C eccentric master of ink The visual language of ink dragons in Japanese art of the Edo period ✥ About Calligraphy Structure of the writing system - introduction Types of scripts Outline structure of characters Calligraphy sample - pictures of ink and water Notes for your calligraphy practice Water - Ink - Picture - worksheets Pictures of ink and water - How to do Calligraphy net for practice ✥ Hebrew section

Pictures of ink and water 水 墨 画 'sui boku ga' - Calligraphy practice sample