Gardening Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's

Recently Viewed clear list

Original Essays | April 29, 2013

Edward Lee: IMG How to Clarify Butter: A Writer's Tale

2 comments By Edward Lee

Chefs don't have time to write. While I was working on Smoke and Pickles, I was running a restaurant — a daily regimen of testing recipes,... Continue »
  1. $20.97 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen

    Edward Lee 9781579654924
spacer

This item may be
out of stock.
Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.


Check for Availability
Add to Wishlist

This title in other editions

Sumi-E: Just for You: Traditional "One Brush" Ink Painting

Sumi-E: Just for You: Traditional "One Brush" Ink Painting Cover

 

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

|"One-brush" sumi-e is an easy, entertaining way to express on paper the moods and images of nature. Everything you need to know is contained in this book. All the brush skills you learn lead step by step into full compositions. Drawings, photos, and simple text explain every stroke with dozens of examples to copy and practice.

Sumi-e is easy to learn and fun to do. It could be just what you're looking for!

Synopsis:

A beginner's guide to sumi-e--Japanese ink paintings of landscapes and portraits. Line drawings, how-to photographs and step-by-step instructions for 20 traditional motifs.
back to top

About the Author

HAKUHO HIRAYAMA, a graduate of Japanese Women's University in Tokyo, has worked in sumi-e since early childhood and has taught the art to the foreign community in Tokyo for over thirty years. Formerly the student of well-known sumi-e artists Taisei Mizukami and Keiho Kusuhara, Mrs. Hirayama conducts regular classes at the Tokyo American Club and has also taught and performed demonstrations of sumi-e techniques in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the United States.

back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780870113697
Subtitle:
Traditional One Brush Ink Painting
Author:
Hirayama, Hakuho
Author:
null, Hakuho
Publisher:
Kodansha USA
Location:
Tokyo :
Subject:
Asian
Subject:
Art
Subject:
Technique
Subject:
Sumie
Subject:
Techniques - Watercolor Painting
Subject:
Architecture | Applied Arts
Subject:
Art and Architecture | Applied Arts
Subject:
Ink painting, Japanese -- Technique.
Subject:
Sumie -- Technique.
Subject:
Art & Architecture | Applied Arts
Subject:
Art-Watercolor
Subject:
Art/Architecture
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
19800115
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
bandw photos, illus.
Pages:
96
Dimensions:
11.61x8.37x.37 in. .98 lbs.
back to top

Related Subjects

Arts and Entertainment » Art » Asia and Far East
Arts and Entertainment » Art » History and Criticism
Arts and Entertainment » Art » Oriental Techniques
Arts and Entertainment » Art » Painting » General
Arts and Entertainment » Art » Watercolor

Sumi-E: Just for You: Traditional "One Brush" Ink Painting
0 stars - 0 reviews
$ In Stock
Product details 96 pages Kodansha America - English 9780870113697 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , A beginner's guide to sumi-e--Japanese ink paintings of landscapes and portraits. Line drawings, how-to photographs and step-by-step instructions for 20 traditional motifs.
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.