ink painting
Monochrome wash art
Ink painting is a traditional East Asian art form using black ink—sometimes with color washes—applied with brush on paper or silk.
The technique emphasizes brushwork, tonal gradation, and empty space over detailed realism.
Subjects typically include landscapes, bamboo, birds, and calligraphy: She studied ink painting in Kyoto.
Also called brush painting or sumi-e (Japanese) and shuǐmò (Chinese).
- inkstoneSlab for grinding pigment
- sumi-eJapanese monochrome brush painting
- Chinese inkCarbon-based writing fluid
- rice paperThin edible Asian wrapper
- silk scrollRolled fabric artwork mount
hanging scroll · calligraphy · brushwork · brush stroke · monochrome · negative space · empty space · Muromachi period · misty mountains · minimalism · black ink · gradation · shading · Zen Buddhism · woodblock printing · spontaneity · abstraction · layering
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- paintingwatercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints, watercolors
- art techniquesdrawing, sketching, shading, blending, cross-hatching
- Asian artskabuki, noh theater, Peking opera, Beijing opera, Chinese opera
ink paintingoil painting
Art made with linseed-bound pigments
encaustic painting · impasto · fresco · gouache · watercolor