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Title: The Sumi-E Book by Yolanda Mayhall ISBN: 0-8230-5022-X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that is a work of art in itself.
Comment: I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to start doing Japanese Sumi-e Painting. I had to learn all by myself, and I must say that this book in particular has made my journey a little more easier. I found the Authores-Painter very professional in the way that she always tries,with her step by step method, to make it easy for the beginner to get along. It is so well explained, that you just can't go wrong. On the other hand, I also think that this beautiful book is in itself a Work Of Art, due to that the paintings you find inside are unique, very personal, and not a patterned copy. I heartily thank the friend who gave it to me, and have always wished it had a second part.
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical book for beginning sumi-e painters
Comment: This is a very practical book for the beginning student of Chinese or Japanese brush painting. Clear, simple and precise illustrations show how to execute the traditional"four gentlemen"- bamboo, orchid, chrysanthemum, and plum. Students will learn such important concepts as how to achieve depth by double dipping the brush into a darker tone of ink, how to achieve movement by varying the pressure on the brush and how to achieve texture by varying the amount of moisture in the brush. The bonuses of this book are the examples of other forms one can make using related strokes. For example, after mastering the bamboo leaves one can easily paint a bird, lizard, or butterfly. After mastering the orchid leaves one can use the same strokes to paint fish, underwater grasses, and water lilies. Once students gain confidence they can naturally go on to master tiger lilies, rocks, mountains, and pine trees, all beautifully illustrated in this book.
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Rating: 5
Summary: "as clear as a mountain brook "
Comment: In all honesty, Sumi-E is best learned from a teacher in a live workshop. The combination of exacting brushstrokes, meditative attitude & free, almost unconscious, expression is difficult to take out of a book alone. Sumi-E has an intimate connection to Zen practices. But that said, in the absence of a teacher, Yolanda Mayhall's book is the best I've seen. Her purpose here is to get you started on the right path - & in Sumi-E, the right path means everything.
The "Four Gentleman" brushstrokes & their basic variations are the substance of The Sumi-E Book. Bamboo, Wild Orchid, Chrysanthemum & Plum Branch represent "all the forms in the universe." One could endlessly write haiku on those four natural forms, so why not paintings, too?
This book is as clear as a mountain brook & as gentle as a breeze. Successfully achieving a bamboo branch & leaf (& you will succeed) is enough to draw you onward down that right path. Even children can grasp the basics of these strokes using inexpensive brushes & watercolors, & they will wonder at the simplicity of it.
Just as poets return again & again to haiku in order to sharpen their observation skills & sense of economy, all artists will reap large benefits from the spare, mono-chromatic beauty of Sumi-E that will enrich your other mediums & quiet your mind as well.
Highly recommended.
Bob Rixon
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Title: The Sumi-E Dream Book: An Impressionist Approach to the Art of Japanese Brush Painting by Yolanda Mayhall, Ted Mayhall ISBN: 0823050238 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors by Lian Quan Zhen, Lian Zhen ISBN: 1581800002 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.99 |
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Title: The Art and Technique of Sumi-E: Japanese Ink-Painting As Taught by Ukai Uchiyama by Kay Morrissey Thompson ISBN: 0804819599 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Japanese Ink-Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Techniques by Ryukyu Saito ISBN: 0804832609 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sumi-E: Just for You by Hakuho Hirayama ISBN: 0870113690 Publisher: Kodansha America Pub. Date: 01 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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