Japanese Ink-Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique

Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a unique Japanese art that has produced some of the world's finest masterpieces of ink painting. Considered a type of Japanese painting known as sumi-e, suiboku adds water to emphasize the shading of black into grey in one brush-stroke.

With origins in China and a spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of brush painting—expressing nature's colors through shades of black ink monochrome—has been enjoyed throughout the centuries as a hobby for the amateur. Indulge your curiosity in this Zen art and quickly learn to paint suiboku style with easy-to-find supplies you may already have on hand.