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Anniversary.........

It has been five years now, from when this excursion of pen and ink began...  in some ways, it just seems as if yesterday I began this blog, with the hopes of many others joining in, creating a lively Society of Pen and Ink Artists, International in scope...  well, is true there have been others, from time to time, who have inserted their works, adding to the points of various directions ink can take - and it is certainly true that many pen and ink artists from ages past and around the world have been noted on these pages, from Vierge to Yang Yu-Tang to more recent discoveries...  


but, when all is said and done, it has, unfortunately, become but an extension of my own blog, Visioneer Windows, just specializing in the pen and ink arena....  I wish it were otherwise, I really do - but it seems that for all the interest seen by others regarding this medium, and its possibilities, it remains now an almost sole output, a voice crying in the wilderness...  too many profess wanting to be an artist, but wanted it handed on a silver platter, essentially without any, or at worse, little effort - not just in this unforgiving area of unforgiving ink, but in all the mediums...

still, in the hopes the tide will turn, I intend to continue with the urge "..to sail beyond the sunset.."........

Salut..........

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the bark marking of the tree is now done, and tho there is the sunlit parts yet to layer, will now turn to finishing the grisaille of the valley...

IKEDA Manabu

a most interesting artist discovered who works in pen and ink, and who works can be seen at the MIZUMA Gallery...[ http://mizuma-art.co.jp/artist/0030/index_e.php ]

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