ink purchase

While I was in Korea, I purchased a 먹 (muk, is like a really condensed bar of ink, it’s that thing with the gold frame around it). You grind it on a stone plate as you use it. I like it because you can get really deep tone out of it. Plus I really like the smell. I couldn’t bring back the stone plate & liquid ink because they weighed too much in my luggage.

then I did some drawings/paintings on these envelops I found…

…this was my favorite one :) / drip ink + pen drawing + brush wash

drip wash + pen drawings

repeated drip wash

drip ink + pen drawing

drip ink & shifting it on watered surface / unfortunately, when this dries, it loses the smokiness and just becomes blurry…

yup, wasting envelops was fun, now I’ll just have to find a stone plate when I get back to New York.