There was a time, not so long ago, when the manipulation of images was a rare and magical thing. Expensive and time consuming, I was confined largely to the worlds of advertising, marketing and glossy ...

A computer has mastered Sumi-e, a style of oriental ink painting that conveys a scene with just a few, delicate brush strokes. The accomplishment takes automated image manipulation to a new frontier, ...

Hisae Shouse displays a sumi-e ink drawing. As a child, Shouse gravitated toward manga, finding her earliest means of artistic expression in the stylized comic form. By the time she finished high ...

One day, my 8th grade art teacher decided to try to teach his class sumi-e, the Japanese art of Ink wash painting. It’s a minimalist style with a long history and subtle philosophy behind it, not ...