Copyright 2009
Susan Frame
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Updated 11-3-09
What
About My Art?
What Do I Do?
I've been a Sumi-e painter for 35 years. Using Chinese ink, watercolors, gouache, ground mineral pigments and various other fun stuff on rice paper, I paint flowers, animals, landscapes, and abstract renditions of things I know and love.
My personal painting style is based on traditional and contemporary Asian brush painting techniques. Emphasis is on brush loading and brush manipulation, control of ink/color and water on the absorbent rice paper, and "chi"/life force of the painting. The whole idea is to gain complete control over the materials so that you can let go of control.
I also receive great enjoyment and fulfillment by sharing my love of painting with others. I have been teaching for many years, with workshops, painting expeditions, and demonstrations in such beautiful places as Minnesota, Florida, Wisconsin, Alaska, Washington, Virginia, New York, Guatemala, and France.