Its sumi ink. Its usually made of pine soot and some kind of oil. It smells like earth, which some people love and others hate. Its typically made in stick form and grinded with a special grinding stone. This is normally considered metatative in the east and monotonous in the west because it takes about 15 minutes, which is why it can be bought bottled. I use yasutomo bottled ink and it is a very deep, opaque, shiny ink and cost about as much as most inks that are noware near as black so I use it for all of my ink needs. Sometimes it is to thin for a dip pen unless you use speedball nibs. It seems to work with thoughts fine.
a true artist.
you amaze me again. beautiful title for a beautiful work of art
I love it.
Very nice!
@sf108com what do you mean? they're meant to look like they're bending/twisted so it looks good to me. how are they supposed to be painted?
@missanna208 -its not wrong..no right or wrong in art....its upon the artist interpretation and vision...
is that ink??? ive really gotten into the graff stide of calligraphy im lookin to try brushes and ink
Its sumi ink. Its usually made of pine soot and some kind of oil. It smells like earth, which some people love and others hate. Its typically made in stick form and grinded with a special grinding stone. This is normally considered metatative in the east and monotonous in the west because it takes about 15 minutes, which is why it can be bought bottled. I use yasutomo bottled ink and it is a very deep, opaque, shiny ink and cost about as much as most inks that are noware near as black so I use it for all of my ink needs. Sometimes it is to thin for a dip pen unless you use speedball nibs. It seems to work with thoughts fine.
what are the grey thing?
Hi! I'm an oriental arts student from Argentina and I need to know the botanical name of this orchid. Do you happen to know it?
Cymbidium sinense perhaps, or Cymbidium ensifolium
cymbidium orchid