Japanese Brush Painting

Start with the basics of Japanese ink painting or Sumi-E. Get an introduction to the four treasures: ink, inkstone, brushes and papers. You'll learn traditional and contemporary styles of ink painting.

You’ll first start with the practice of calligraphy to learn brush skills and design. Then, you'll learn how to paint the classic subject of the pine tree and the brush strokes needed to paint the fruit, birds and insects of the summer season. Riki will teach you the traditional process of stretching a painting onto another sheet of rice paper to make the artwork more durable and ready for display and framing.

Adults: $418.00
Under 18: $242.00

Prices include GST

Details

	Age	16+
	Skill Level	Everyone
	Time slot	Whole week - full days
	Status	Bookings open July 1, 2021.
	Location	Bellingen High School

More about the course

Become in a flash. The subject. The brush. The ink and the paper.

Andre Sollier

Student Feedback

2019 Camp Creative Survey

"Our teacher, Riki Alsopp, was excellent! So encouraging, so creative in approach, her demonstrations of technique--we literally stopped breathing as she showed us a form to practice. And yet, so modest a person. Just excellent."

"Riki is an excellent teacher, and creates an inclusive, encouraging and creative atmosphere in the class. She is very generous with her time, information, and extra materials which she brought in to extend our ability to develop the medium. We enjoyed the week greatly, and would do it again."

"Riki is an excellent and generous tutor. We covered a great deal of material and techniques. The class atmosphere was wonderful."

"Many varied techniques, great tuition, room for experimentation, learning how to stetch and mount finished works, friendly group."

Tutor

Riki Allsop

Riki was born in Austria. Art and music were encouraged in Riki's childhood. She found her passion for Oriental Ink Painting in the 1980's in Japan. She studied textiles and art at Nakayama Kobo in Tokyo, Japan and also with various artists in Australia and Japan, including Richard Liddicut, Andre Sollier, Kyoko Onagi, Andrew Lo and Iseko Arai.

In the 1990's Riki lived in Bellingen and taught Ink Brush Painting from her studio.

She is a member of the Australian Chinese Painting Society and has had solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Japan and South America. Riki is passionate about Oriental Ink painting and is a practising artist.

Course Requirements

All equipment and materials are provided for this course. There is a materials cost of $30 payable to tutor at commencement of the course. If you have your own equipment for Ink Brush Painting please bring it along!

Please feel free to contact me on friederikeallsop@gmail.com