In the Japanese Ink Painting Course, we offer an experience of disconnection from our daily lives through painting, where artistic awareness is cultivated and sensations are explored so we can, finally, use paper and ink as a mirror.

This is an opportunity to delve into the meditative art of suggestion using minimalist means of expression, through a 1500-year-old Japanese artistic tradition.

Margot Toh-kou (東虹) Olejniczak will come to Cerdeira to share the art of traditional Japanese painting, a knowledge passed from generation to generation, from master to master, and which will now reach this village and its students. This is a fertile place for this meditative art, where we can observe nature and absorb its silence. The perfect context for an art that achieves its maximum expression with minimum resources.

During the 5 days course, you will have the opportunity to delve into the secrets of this beautiful art and cultivate artistic awareness by observing the nature that surrounds you. It will allow you to completely disconnect yourself from the thoughts and things that occupy you daily in your everyday life. You will learn to transfer your feelings and emotions to paper using original Japanese tools.

Program:

• Several traditional techniques and styles of Japanese ink painting;
• The main principles of Japanese art, philosophy and composition and their deeper understanding;
• The correct use of Japanese painting materials (so-called four treasures: brush, ink, ink stone, paper);
• Basic and some advanced techniques of brush and black ink with its subtle gradations;
• Introduction to the theoretical knowledge about Japanese sumi-e painting and philosophy;
• A variety of themes related to surrounding nature and according to the duration of the workshop;
• The rules of composition;
• The rules for creating a complete painting with all the important elements;
• Achieving maximum expression with minimum resources;
• Spontaneity of expression;
• Relaxation through the process of meditative painting;
• Communing with beautiful items needed for painting, such as paper, ink, stone for mixing ink, various brushes;

Schedule

Course: 10h30 am to 12h30 and 3pm to 5pm.

Conditions

• Enrollments up to 2 months before the Japanese Ink Painting Course.

The course fee includes:

• Integration in a small workgroup (6 to 12 participants in total);
• Training 5 hours a day, spoken in English and with support in Portuguese;
• Welcome dinner;
• All the materials needed for the course;
• Free accommodation in our shared residences during the course (upon availability). The residences are equipped with a dormitory, kitchen, shared bathrooms, washing machine, towels, bed linen and wi-fi;
• 10% discount on the base rate when booking an individual house (minimum of 2 nights). The base rate refers to a stay of 2 people and includes breakfast, equipped kitchen, towels, bed linen and wi-fi.

Adicional lunch service:

Lunch package for 5 days costs 60€. If you book a meal outside the package, it will cost 15€. This service has to be booked at least 48 hours in advance at reception.