Mindful Mark Making
Find your calm with mindful mark making.
Sumi ink, Japanese brushes and washi (rice paper) are excellent tools for meditative mark making.
In this livestream, artist Karen Elaine leads a relaxing creative session on mark making with sumi ink.
This is perfect way to close out #inktober 2023!
This video was originally livestreamed on the Yasutomo Facebook page on Friday, 10/27/23.
Items Used
For an easy, shoppable overview of the items used in this demo, visit our Mindful Mark Making collection HERE.
Listed roughly in order of appearance in the video:
- Karen says the blizzard book instructions can be found in the book The Art of the Fold by Hedi Kyle
- Sumi Ink stick (SSB700: Artist Quality & SSB900: Professional Quality)
- Suzuri Stone (S147: 5 1/2" x 3" & S165: 5" x 2 1/2")
- Porcelain flower palette (WCW213)
- All-Purpose brush (SW00)
- Torinoko paper (6T)
Wavy lines
- Sumi Ink stick (SSB700: Artist Quality & SSB900: Professional Quality)
- Suzuri Stone (S147: 5 1/2" x 3" & S165: 5" x 2 1/2")
- Porcelain flower palette (WCW213)
- All-Purpose brush (SW00)
- Asagami paper (6AG)
Brayer technique
- Black liquid sumi ink (green bottle) (KF2)
- Suzuri Stone (S147: 5 1/2" x 3" & S165: 5" x 2 1/2")
- Hosho paper (6H)
- Brayer
Metallic black inks
- Golden Black sumi ink (CG18)
- Silver Black sumi ink (CS18)
- Hosho paper (6H) (Karen worked on top of her brayer technique piece)
Mineral Paper + brayer
- Mineral Paper (Karen used our 160 lb / 240 gsm paper: JMP400G)
- Black liquid sumi ink (KF2)
- Suzuri Stone (S147: 5 1/2" x 3" & S165: 5" x 2 1/2")
- Bamboo baren (used to pull the monoprint) (13: 4 1/2" diameter or SB10: 3 7/8" diameter)
Find Karen online:
Instagram: instagram.com/karenelainecreative/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KarenElaine
Tag us in your posts on Instagram @yasutomo_art and @karenelainecreative so we can see your creations 