I worked outside in the North of Glasgow with my friend artist Margaret Kerr, painting in my large sketchbook a 水墨画 suibokuga ink painting (style is also called sumi-e) of silver birch trees.

It was comfy kneeling on my picnic mat with my suzuri inkwell and bowls and fude brushes all laid out, and very peaceful with Margaret and the chirping small birds 😊 and great to experiment with some of the suibokuga techniques which use very different methods of using brushes such as holding the fude brushes, adding sumi ink in certain ways, and the numerous types of strokes.

Deciding where to stamp the ink painting of the trees fading into the forest 🌳 was fun, being careful though not to cut off the flow of movement in the artwork though✨