Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) Workshop Part 7: “Coloured Magnolia with 幸 – Happiness” with Akemi Lucas
paid Workshop
Sat 29 May 2021 10:00 - 13:00
Book Before 17:00 Fri 28 May 2021
Fee: £35.00 | Platform: ZOOM
Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Painting) workshop “Coloured Magnolia with 幸 – Happiness”
Date: 29th May 2021, Saturday
Time: 10:00-13:00 (3 hours lesson, 10 minutes break in between)
Instructor’s profile: Akemi Lucas
Online tool: ZOOM (link will be sent to you after your purchase**)
Ticket Price:
- £35 – Single person ticket
Ticket sales will close at 5pm on 28th May 2021, Friday.
Ticket with calligraphy equipment set:
- £53 – Single person ticket with 1 calligraphy hanshi paper set (incl. 120 pieces of 2 types of paper)- New Option!!
- £45 – Single person ticket with 1 thin brush
- £58 – Single person ticket with 1 thick brush: Koshu original
- £66 – Single person ticket with a set of 2 brushes (1 x thick & 1 x thin)
- £91- 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 calligraphy equipment set sales will close on 23rd May 2021, Sunday.
Precautions: Over 15 years old
**If you don’t receive any information one day before the class, please send an email here: contact@hyperjapan.co.uk
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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 “幸: Happiness”
- Stroke order of “幸: Happiness”
- Introduction of Magnolia brush techniques – flower petals, buds and stems
- (10min break time)
- Layout, order of painting and ink control
- Going through the painting together.
- Finalise the artwork of Magnolia and “幸: Happiness” (painting with Sumi first, then if you prefer to paint in colour, using colour)
- 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 Brushes (Japanese Calligraphy Brushes – 1 x thick and 1 x thin brush – or watercolour paint brush)
- Ink: Black calligraphy ink ( or black watercolour ink)
- Gansai Paint: white and red or purple – your choice of colour ( or white and red/purple water colour paint)
- 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 )
- 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 best practice and finishing your works.
💫 Details of 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 – pictured right.
- 1 x Brush (Thin): pictured left
Details of calligraphy brushes for sale
Pictured below is a set of 2 brushes: 1 thin brush on right –and 1 thick brush on left : Koshu original. The same type of brushes will be sent to you for other options which include brushes. Any brush will be sent to you directly by the instructor.
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.