Dee Teller Print - Thundering White Horses

This print was from Artist Dee Teller. She is a very talented sumi painter. The horses are so lifelike and the colors so soft. I chose colors that would help to bring out the print while still being framed in the white to provide relief to the eyes. Even though the border of the print has white, I did not list this as a daihari in the table measurement below.
The scroll is made with a ginran for the ichimonji, and the jikusaki is a ceramic light blue with white fleck. The hanging string is takuboku.
Dimensions as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	115	13.72
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	16	1.91
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	148	17.66
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	149	17.77
柱	Pillars	12	1.43
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	10	1.19
地	Chi	65	7.75
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	172	20.52
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	355	42.35

Dojo Alcove with Yoshimi's Writing

Yoshimi wrote this shikishi Ichigo Ichie for this dojo. I especially like the armor. Her writing is beautiful. The scroll is not mine. I have seen many of these modified Sandan Hyougu scrolls. I think two tone scrolls are more traditional with the chuumawashi having a small karakusa (arabesque) with a solid cloth color for the Ten & Chi.

New York Dragon

Another Dragon sumi work made into a scroll for a New York artist.
Dimensions:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	105	12.53
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	8	0.95
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	71	8.47
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	97	11.57
柱	Pillars	20	2.39
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	4	0.48
地	Chi	60	7.16
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	111	13.24
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	274	32.69

Yosemite Waterfall Sumie

This was painted by Polish artist Mariusz Szmerdt. It is his vision of a photograph of a waterfall in Yosemite National Park. I am taking this to the Golden State Bonsai Federation this week, and intended to sell that there, but think it will be difficult because of the large tree in the painting creating redundancy in display.

The scroll is made with a Benberugu cloth, a shitan jikusaki and an Usukincha hanging string. The reason I ultimately selected this cloth was to help subtely accentuate the vertical lines of the cliff and falls. Dimensions are posted as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	123	14.67
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	126	15.03
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	279	33.28
柱	Pillars	2.5	0.30
地	Chi	70	8.35
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	131	15.63
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	472	56.31

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Return Customer Ox Sumie

This Ox Painting is the Sumi work of a New York artist. This is the second set of paintings she sent to me. I am glad to be able to do the work. I like the simple brush strokes, but they are still complex because there seems to be some wet on wet and the tones in some brush strokes are darker to lighter.

She chose the same Navy silk with the gold on gold small karakusa for the ichimonji. The scroll is completed with the Usukincha kakehimo and ivory plastic jikusaki.

Dimensions are below:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	105	12.53
上一文字	Ue Ichimonji	8	0.95
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	73	8.71
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	95	11.33
柱	Pillars	20	2.39
下一文字	Shita Ichimonji	4	0.48
地	Chi	60	7.16
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	113	13.48
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	272	32.45

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Custom Shikishi Order

This is another custom shikishi order for a Karate Dojo. It is written in the Sousho full cursive style. If you would like a wallscroll, custom calligraphy or shikishi, please contact to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com

神 God Shikishi Sousho

This is also an order from a return customer. The calligraphy or Shodo is done in the full cursive, Sousho, style. This is the character for 神, read Kami, which means God or Divinity. It is written by Yoshimi Yamada Maples or Ryugyoku.

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Ki Shikishi

This is the older form of Ki氣. Written for a return customer on a shikishi board in the Great Lakes area. Customer wanted it written in Full cursive or Sousho style, and this is very legible for Sousho. One often sees Aikidou written this way.

Custom Shikishi

This custom shikishi was written by Yoshimi Maples or Ryugyoku, and is written in the Sousho, full cursive, style. The order request was for a first name translation into Japanese. Aaron Aziel. I used the original meaning of the name Aaron which is mountain of strength. I did put strong first to put the adjective in front of the Mountain. It reads Kyouzan or Kyousan Oni 強山鬼.

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