Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) Workshop Part 6: "Poppy with Butterfly" with Akemi Lucas

Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Painting) workshop "Poppy with Butterfly"

Date: 8th May 2021, Saturday

Time: 10:30-13:00 (2.5 hours lesson,10 minutes break in between)

Instructor's profile: Akemi Lucas ( click name for instructor's page)

Online tool:  ZOOM (link will be sent to you after your purchase**)

Ticket Price:

• £30 - Single person ticket

Ticket sales will close at 5pm on 7th May 2021, Friday.

Ticket with calligraphy equipment set:

• £48 - Single person ticket with 1 calligraphy Hanshi paper set ( incl. 120 pieces of 2 different types) - NEW OPTION!
• £40 - Single person ticket with 1 thin brush 
• £53 - Single person ticket with 1 thick brush - Koshu original
• £61 - Single person ticket with a set of 2 brushes ( 1 x thin & 1 x thick)
• £86 - Single person ticket with 1 full calligraphy equipment set - New Version!

(Incl. first class shipping fee inside the mainland UK. Please see below for equipment details and the photo.)

Ticket with a brush or calligraphy equipment set sales will close on 28th April 2021, Wednesday.

Precautions: Over 15 years old

Please read the Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them before you submit your form.

https://store.hyperjapan.co.uk/pages/terms-and-conditions-for-cross-media-event-workshop-students

**If you don't receive any information one day before the class, please send an email here: contact@hyperjapan.co.uk

* Left: Image of instructions you'll practice at workshop

* Right: Sample image of coloured "Poppy with Butterfly" - Akemi will show/explain to you how to use colours for you to draw afterwards. ( You will NOT draw coloured "Poppy with Butterfly" in the class.)

Workshop plan

Please be prepared 10 minutes before the workshop starts.

1. Greeting
2. Warm-up exercises
3. Introduction of brush techniques-leaves, flower petals, buds, stems and butterfly. All with black ink.
   (10min break time)
4. Layout and ink control
5. Order of painting
6. Completing artworks
7. Explaining how to use colours for Poppy with Butterfly
8. Q&A time

Akemi will assess your work for comments by sending your work through HYPER JAPAN after the workshop.

* Image of Akemi's online workshop at HYPER JAPAN 

Equipment needed for the class

Please prepare this equipment by yourself before the workshop starts.

1. 2 Brushes (Japanese Calligraphy Brushes - 1 x thick and 1 x thin brush - or watercolour paint brush)
2. Ink: Black calligraphy ink ( or black watercolour ink)
3. Paper: Calligraphy - Hanshi – paper, roughly 30 papers ( or packing papers)
4. Three small plates for ink
5. Cloth (Felt): put under the paper.
6. Paperweight (or anything heavy to put on the paper or Washi paper to fix)
7. Water for washing brush & diluting ink ( water in a jam jar )
8. Some Kitchen towel or tissue papers

* Image of equipment you will need for the workshop

💫 Details of Hanshi calligraphy paper set for sale - New Option!

1. 1 x Practice calligraphy Hanshi paper set (contains 100 pieces)
2. 1 x Gasenshi calligraphy paper set for your fair copy (contains 20 pieces)

These 2 types of made in Japan Hanshi paper are suitable for Sumi-e and Shodo work and hand picked by Akemi for your best practice and finishing your works.

*Image of practice Hanshi paper on right and Gasenshi calligraphy paper on right – this set will be sent to you directly by the instructor.

💫 Details of full calligraphy equipment set for sale

1. 1 x practice calligraphy - Hanshi - paper set (contains 100 pieces)
2. 1 x Gasenshi calligraphy paper set for your fair copy (contains 20 pieces)
3. 1 x Black Calligraphy Ink bottle
4. 1 x Cloth (Felt) to put under the paper
5. 1 x Brush (Thick) : Koshu Original - pictured right
6. 1 x Brush (Thin): pictured left.