Sumi-e (ink painting) Workshop : “Rose with 想 -thinking of you” with Akemi Lucas
paid Workshop
Sat 22 Jan 2022 13:00 - 16:00
Book Before 17:00 Fri 21 Jan 2022
Fee: £35.00 | Platform: ZOOM
Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Painting) workshop “Rose with 想 – thinking of you” with KOSHU – Akemi Lucas
Join Akemi to explore the ancient Japanese art of Sumi-e ink painting to draw “Rose with 想 – thinking of you” ahead of this year’s Valentine’s day.
Date: 22nd January 2022, Saturday
Time: 13:00-16:00 GMT ( Please note time! 3 hours lesson, short breaks in between)
Instructor’s profile: Akemi Lucas
Online tool: ZOOM (link will be sent to you before your lesson**)
Ticket Price (to participate the workshop):
- £35 – Single person ticket
- £55 – DUO ticket ( 2 person to join with 1 Zoom access )
Above Ticket sales will close at 5pm on 21st January 2022, Friday.
Pease note below Add-on Options are available ONLY to purchase WITH Single person or DUO ticket due to limited availability.
Add-on Options for calligraphy/sumi-e equipment (available for the mainland U.K. residents only):
- Add-on Option A: £20 – 1 x calligraphy hanshi paper set (incl. 120 pieces of 2 types of paper)
- Add-on Option B: £34 – 1 high quality sumi-e ink painting speciality medium brush
- Add-on Option C: £76 – 1 x full Sumi-e & calligraphy equipment set
(Incl. first class shipping fee inside the mainland UK. Please see below for equipment details and photos.)
Above Option sales will close at 5pm on 14th January 2022, Friday.
You will need to purchase Single or DUO Ticket to participate Akemi’s workshop. Add-on Option A to C are ONLY available to purchase along with Single or DUO tickets for the UK residents only.
Please send us an email prior to your purchase for any questions.
Precautions: Over 15 years old
** Please read our Terms and Conditions before you purchase your tickets: Terms and Conditions for HYPER JAPAN ONLINE EVENTS
** If you don’t receive any information one day before the class, please send an email here: contact@hyperjapan.co.uk
** This online session will NOT be recorded to protect the privacy of workshop participants.
Workshop plan
Please be prepared 10 minutes before the workshop starts.
- Greeting & Explanation of the lesson plan
- Warm-up exercises
- Practice of basic stroke of “想 – thinking of you”
- Stroke order of “想 – thinking of you”
- Introduction of Rose brush techniques – flower petals, buds, leaves and stems
- (10min break time)
- Ink control
- Order of painting and layout
- Creating artworks in Sumi (black ) first
- (short break time)
- Explaining how to use colours for petals and sepals
- Completing artworks stems and leaves in Sumi, sepals & flower petals in your favourite colour or colour of your choice. And writing “想 -thinking of you”.
- Q&A time
Akemi will assess your work for comments by sending your work through HYPER JAPAN after the workshop.
Equipment needed for the class
Please prepare this equipment by yourself before the workshop starts.
- 2 or 3 or more brushes (Japanese Calligraphy Brushes – 1 x thick, 1 x medium and 1 x thin brush – or any other watercolour paint brush)
- Ink: black calligraphy ink ( or black watercolour ink)
- Gansai Paint: your favourite or any colour of your choice (or water colour paint is fine)
- Paper: Calligraphy – Hanshi – paper, roughly 30 papers ( or packing papers)
- Five small plates for ink and ink stone if you have
- Cloth (felt): put under the paper.
- Paperweight (or anything heavy to put on the paper or Washi paper to fix)
- Water for washing brush & diluting ink ( water in a jam jar etc.)
- Some Kitchen towel or tissue papers
image of equipment you will need for the lesson 
image of Gansai paint – you can purchase from online retailers
💫NEW!! Details of calligraphy hanshi paper set for sale💫
- 1 x Practice calligraphy hanshi paper set (contains 100 pieces)
- 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 better practice and finishing your works.
💫NEW!! Details of high quality Sumi-e ink painting speciality brush for sale
Pictured below is a high quality Sumi-e speciality brush: medium sized and perfect for Sumi-e painting. Hand picked by Akemi for your better practice and outcome of your art work. Brush will be sent by the instructor.
💫 Details of Sumi-e & full calligraphy equipment set for sale
- 1 x practice calligraphy – Hanshi – paper set (contains 100 pieces)
- 1 x Gasenshi calligraphy paper set for your fair copy (contains 20 pieces)
- 1 x black calligraphy Ink bottle
- 1 x cloth (Felt) to put under the paper
- 1 x brush (thick) : Koshu Original – left brush below
- 1 x brush (thin): high quality thin brush perfect for Sumi-e and calligraphy – hand picked by Akemi
Instructor
KOSHU : Akemi Lucas
ART＆CRAFT
Japanese Calligraphy Master
Koshu Japanese Art (雅号：紅秋）
Koshu is the identity of Akemi Lucas as a Japanese calligraphy master. She was born in Japan and started learning calligraphy from the age of eight. Her distinct style of calligraphy builds on traditional skills, and further embodies of fusion of the ancient and the modern, the eastern and the western, and the before and the after.
Currently, she is based in the UK as a Japanese artist, predominantly working on exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, and commissions. Her latest calligraphy artworks were used in the 2019 Rugby World Cup and a multi-media advertising campaign for the main sponsor of the British Olympic team for the Tokyo Olympic Games.