Sumi-e
水墨画 / Tang dynasty–present / Technique / East Asian Painting
With only ink gradations and emptiness, keeps a subject's presence, speed and distance rather than its shape.
Ink gradation / Dry-brush scratch / Vast emptiness / The speed of one stroke
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Presence and depth from few elements · Giving quiet brands and cultural projects room to breathe
- Type
- A light mincho or brush letters, sparingly
- Composition
- Reserve as much for the unpainted as for the subject
- Material
- Ink, unbleached paper, absorption, bleed
- Caution
- Not a black brush texture dropped in. Design the stroke order and the meaning of the emptiness.
- Further study
- Sesshū Tōyō / haboku