Suminagashi

Posted on April 19, 2019 Posted in art, Events, free, printmaking, Santa Fe, suminagashiTagged art, color, ebru, ink, marbling, monoprint, monotype, oil, painting, paper, papermaking, printmaking, spilledink, sumi, suminagashiLeave a comment

Getting ready for a few workshops this summer!

Colorful ink pots

20 large marbled prints on a studio floor

Pink and orange vibrant suminagashi print

Sumi Prints

Posted on January 10, 2019 Posted in art, printmaking, suminagashiTagged art, ebru, japan, japanese art, marbling, monoprint, monotype, paper, paper art, papermaking, printmaking, spilledink, sumi, sumi-a-day, suminagashiLeave a comment

I’ve been stocking back up on my larger prints! I did a few of the more classic designs in the large tray. These are both 22″x30″.

Being Cold at Studio Kura

Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Posted in art, Artist residency, japan, Maternal Mitochondria, studio kura, suminagashiTagged art, fukuoka, itoshima, japan, marbling, Maternal Mitochondria, miriam sagan, monoprint, monotype, paper, papermaking, printmaking, spilledink, studio kura, sumi, suminagashiLeave a comment

One year ago Maternal Mitochondria was drying our suminagashi by kerosene in a Japanese winter…

Suminagashi spread out on a wooden floor in front of a kerosene heater

Unexpected Encounters

Posted on December 3, 2018 Posted in art, collageTagged animals, art, collage, fish, giraffe, ink, multimedia, nature, paper, paper art, papermaking, pigs, pink, printmakingLeave a comment

New large collage piece, “Unexpected Encounters.” I was definitely supposed to be doing something else in my life drawing class! I like to think of it as a companion piece to these BFF pigs.

Collage made out of drawings and paper, fish, seaweed, giraffe

Brightly colored paper collage with two piggy banks

All Sumi, All the Time

Posted on August 12, 2018August 12, 2018 Posted in art, Events, free, Gallery show, poetry, Railyard, Santa Fe, suminagashiTagged ebru, haiku, marbling, miriam sagan, papermaking, poem, poetry, printmaking, Railyard park, Santa Fe, Spilled Ink, sumi, suminagashiLeave a comment

Thank you so much to everyone who came out for the workshop today! We had a wonderful time. If you’d like to be added to our e-mail list so you don’t miss future events, let me know. And if you missed the workshop today, there will be another one on Tuesday, August 14th at 5pm at Zephyr Community Art Studio, which will be part of an opening for the show “Water Sound: Suminagashi at Zephyr.” E-mail me at ws.isabel@yahoo.com if you are thinking about attending!

Yellow and black suminagashi drying on a park bench

Art by Isabel W.S.

Tag: papermaking