Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traditional Japanese calligraphy ink, referred to as sumi ink, comes in a solid form. It takes at least four years of production ...

Sumi-e, literally “charcoal drawing,” is a form of Japanese ink painting brought from China in the 12th century. Students learn to grind their own ink and execute the primary sumi-e brushstrokes to ...

If Zabeth Cornelius-Knudsen could describe art as anything, she would equate it to a meditative practice. The Pacific Beach resident, yoga therapist and artists dove into her creative side during the ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The hiss of highway traffic seeps into Yumi Hogan's fourth-floor classroom through windows, muffling a fluttery recording of Asian music. For an instant, the room feels empty, ...

TOKYO -- Tamayo Samejima kneels on the ground, rubbing a stick of black sumi ink against a flat ink stone. She takes a brush and applies the ink in bold strokes over the white surface before her, ...

Rice University will host the internationally known Sumi Ink Club for a participatory public art project at the university. Members of the Rice and Greater Houston communities are invited to join Los ...