Flower Dance Sumie

This is the second in the series of paintings mounted for Dee Teller and her upcoming exhibition. http://deeteller.com/ This work is titled "Flower Dance". The most challenging point in designing this scroll was to find a cloth (Kireji) that would let the work be dominant, but still help accentuate the yellows and the purple in the painting. This lilac colored cloth with a wispy pattern really seemed to do the trick.

 It is completed with an Enshu Shitan Jikusaki (Rosewood, with a lip at the end) and the Fuji color hanging string. Total size of the scroll is a little more than 14 inches wide by 46.3 inches long.

 

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Coyote Howing at the Moon Sumie Kakejiku (Wallscroll)

This painting was done by the very talented Polish Artist Mariusz Szmerdt. It is for sale. For sale inquiries please contact to sales@customjapanesecalligraphy.com. I requested him to complete some American themed paintings because several bonsai artists had written or spoken to me about not being able to understand the intricacies of Japanese displays, and a desire to have pieces that provide an American flair.

May be someone out there has a California Juniper that could go with this...

In designing this scroll, I thought it would be best to keep it very simple. The Fukuro Hyougu style fit this bill. The tan/dust color of the cloth was used to represent the desert sands of the southwest. I used the grey suji (Suji are the thin strips of cloth) and Nezumi (Mouse Colored) Kakehimo to be complementary to the clouds in the picture. The Dark Blue Jikusaki are ceramic and were used to represent the dark night time sky.

I was really pleased with how the scroll turned out, except for a small section of the suji in the Ten section. Dimensions are as follows:

Name in Kanji	Name in English	Size in Bun	Size in Inches
天	Ten	80	9.54
筋	Suji	1	0.12
天	Partition Bottom	35	4.18
紙本の幅さ	Artwork Width	118	14.08
紙本の長さ	Artwork Length	227	27.08
柱	Pillars	19	2.27
地	Chi First Partition	30	3.58
筋	Suji	2	0.24
地	Middle Partition	11	1.31
地	Bottom Partition	57	6.80
掛け軸の幅さ	Scroll Width	156	18.61
掛け軸の長さ	Scroll Length	443	52.85