One year for Christmas my sister Jane gave me a Chinese ink & brush set it sat on the shelf for another year. Then one day as I was wandering through a dealers room at a convention I saw a Chinese ink & brush set like mine at a dealers table, so I went up to the dealer and asked him how to use it, and he told me. Since then I’ve been experimenting with Chinese ink & watercolor and seeing if I could imitate the style of the Japanese “floating-world” woodcut prints of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. I work a little differently than most, first I paint a loose watercolor scene and then after it drys I comeback and ink in the edges & the detail.

Folk Art