Random ink wash as background, purposeful ink wash as image, drawing on top of washes, using Gesso as a reductive drawing tool

1. Akhtar Hussein – Start light and add darks – light ink wash, darks added

2. Fred Martin – Identify and elaborate
one large shape with added line

3. Aksa Shakil - Gesture and value
as focal point

4. Lee Trites - Simplify! Try “scattered composition”

5. John Barbour – Use light as a focal point

6. Joyce Linker - Draw over bright color, adding similar washes at the end to unify

7. Sumiko Shimada – crop small images form large ones

8. Ibrahim El-Salahie - Use value to create tension, imbalance, harmony, variety of shapes

9. Combine several pieces to form one large one

10. Use empty space as a focal point (unknown artist)

11. Beili Liu – Elaborate on found shapes with value – don’t get attached to raw ink wash

12. Find unusual shapes and clarify them
Stop Making Sense!

13. Hong Liu – Prepare paper with layers of ink wash (and/or Gesso) then draw realistically over dried washes

14. Use Gesso to edit out
distracting elements

15. Use dry brush Gesso over
bright washes, re-work with ink

16. Use Gesso in layers over dried dark washes; fold paper then cover with ink & gesso, use wash over Gesso
(unknown artist)

17. Use Gesso and charcoal over ink wash

18. Cheryl Brodie - layer, layer, layer