Sumi-e, literally “charcoal drawing,” is a form of Japanese ink painting brought from China in the 12th century. Students learn to grind their own ink and execute the primary sumi-e brushstrokes to ...

Sensei Tatsuko Sandin (artist name, Ryushu) will hold demonstrations explaining the technique of sumi-e on Sunday at Casa del Prado in Balboa Park. Imported from China to Japan in the 15th century, ...

Kicking off a series of programs celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Palos Verdes Library District hosted the Community & Family Sumi-E Painting project this past Sunday at the ...

If Zabeth Cornelius-Knudsen could describe art as anything, she would equate it to a meditative practice. The Pacific Beach resident, yoga therapist and artists dove into her creative side during the ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The hiss of highway traffic seeps into Yumi Hogan's fourth-floor classroom through windows, muffling a fluttery recording of Asian music. For an instant, the room feels empty, ...

Coos Art Museum is offering a sumi-e painting class with Darlene Dihel on Saturday, June 26. Japanese ink painting is not only a unique and beautiful form of art, but a philosophy as well. The ...

TOKYO -- Tamayo Samejima kneels on the ground, rubbing a stick of black sumi ink against a flat ink stone. She takes a brush and applies the ink in bold strokes over the white surface before her, ...