• IKEBANA Society of Long Island holds monthly classes in Sung's Studio.
  Course Instructor - Norman Churchhill

East Asian Brush Painting & Calligraphy

Contact: 631-288-0290

Students participate in East Asian ways of depicting nature using traditional brush, ink and rice paper. Through hands-on experience, students learn how East Asian cultures use art forms to convey ideas. Subject matter can include Chinese calligraphy, bamboo, plum blossom, pine tree, flowers, landscapes, fish, birds, insects, and other animals. Students also make comparisons to Western approaches of painting and calligraphy in terms of methods, materials and content.

Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education

NATURE IN ART: EAST ASIAN WATER INK PAINTING & CALLIGRAPHY

45 hours, Three Credits

Contact: 631-360-0800
www.scopeonline.us

The purpose of this course is to learn about East Asian perceptions of nature as well as the techniques and media used to depict those perceptions. Participants are encouraged to apply the central theme of the course in awakening their appreciation of nature and transforming various forms of nature into art.

This course provides training in the fundamentals of traditional East Asian brush painting and calligraphy; its principles, subject matter based on four gracious plants, techniques and style. Representative works by great masters of the past as well as contemporary artists are used as models of brush work and composition.

At the outset of the course we will learn about the philosophical background of East Asian brush painting and calligraphy, as the scholars who practiced them were deeply affected by Taoist, Confucian and Buddhist values. East Asian brush painting is not merely a visual art; it is also a literary and philosophical one.

During the course we will visit the Chinese, Japanese and Korean galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Materials used by each participant include brushes, ink stone, ink stick, rice paper, felt, paperweight, tape, hardboard, seal pad, rubber and glue.


New York Standards

The following New York State standards are met by this course:

The Art:
Standard 1,2,3,4.

Mathematics, Science, and Tech:
Standard 6.

Laguages other than English:
Standard: 2.

Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education

LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE EAST ASIAN WATER INK TRADITION

45hours, three Credits

www.scopeonline.us

“Flowers and Birds” and “Mountains and Rivers” (landscapes) are the two major themes of water ink painting in East Asia. This course will provide a hands-on experience in the art of landscape painting, as well as introduce its history, aesthetics, and cultural significance. The course will include a visit to relevant museum and galleries. Representative works by great masters of the past as well as by contemporary artists will be used as models of brush work and composition in landscape painting.

Materials used by each participant include brushes, ink stone, ink stick, rice paper or silk, felt, paperweight, seal pad, rubber and glue.

New York Standards

The following New York State standards are met by this course:

The Art:
Standard 1,2,3,4.

Mathematics, Science, and Tech:
Standard 6.

Laguages other than English:
Standard: 2.

FEATHERS AND FUR: EAST ASIAN WATER-INK PAINTING OF ANIMALS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS

45hours, three Credits

Materials used by each participant include brushes, ink stone, ink stick, rice paper or silk, felt, paperweight, seal pad, rubber and glue.

New York Standards

The following New York State standards are met by this course:

The Arts:
Standard 1, 2, 3, 4

Mathematics, Science, and Technology:
Standard 6

Languages Other Than English:
Standard 2

45hours, three Credits

Materials used by each participant include brushes, ink stone, ink stick, rice paper, felt, paperweight, seal pad, rubber and glue.

New York Standards

The following New York State standards are met by this course:

The Arts:
Standard 1, 2, 3, 4

Mathematics, Science, and Technology:
Standard 6

Languages Other Than English:
Standard 2