Sumi Ink Club made a cover for not not fun’s “bored fortress” series…. a split seven inch between shepherds + ignatz.

Amid seashells and lava flows, this drawing was made by many hands on the shores of a tropical island in the middle of the pacific ocean:

Sumi Ink CLub created two 12″ drawings for Dublab’s latest art action, the Into Infinity Project:


“DUBLAB is launching INTO INFINITY in collaboration with Creative Commons. This partnership transforms infinite ideas into reality by allowing others inspired by our actions to channel their energy into creativity. We will make hi-res versions of the exhibition’s art & music available for the world to download. People will have freedom to sample and remix INTO INFINITY and submit it back for exhibition consideration.

The various entries will be offered to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial copyright license (also known as the CC BY-NC license). This means that people around the world will be able to legally download, share, use, repurpose, and remix the project’s components – as long as they only do so for noncommercial purposes.”

Here is the drawing from this week’s sumi ink club meeting here in LA, made specially for mark price’s “everyone is awesome all the time” book to be printed soon at philadelphia’s legendary and beautiful space 1026.

Sumi collaboration with LA-based artist, Whitney Bedford, a new friend and great painter. One of her paintings, a bold landscape or seascape with a flat acid-yellow sky, is lodged in our brains forever though we only had a brief look at it.

“GREYSCALE GARDENS”
Sumi Ink Club, 2008, 16 pages, B&W, A6 size, ed. of 250 published by Glaciers of Nice

A small collaborative pencil drawing made by sumi ink club for a group show at krets gallery in malmo is magnified several times until each graphite mark is given its own personality. each page is a tiled out section of the blown-up drawing, preserving the contiguous shape of the thing, but also just opening things up for however you want to look at it…!
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Ms. Denise Schatz’ class held an epic meeting of Sumi Ink Club (with sharpee markers) at the 21st library LIC Queens, NY. As always drawn by many hands.

“Grey Scale Gardens” for an upcoming pencil show at Krets gellery in Malmo, Sweden, and a new glaciers of nice publication of the same name.

No wonder we haven’t seen these guys around sumi ink club lately–they’ve fully entered the cartoon utopia! Can’t wait to see this show! the opening is June 7th at 8pm at our favorite place in town, Hope Gallery. See you there!

Sumi Ink Club met this tuesday after noon, and worked on album art for David Scott Stone’s new 7″ record soon to be released by Teenage Teardrops. Here’s one side: the other was drawn in Beppu, Japan while staring at a photograph of David Scott Stone in a parka overlooking ancient ruins. This is the first time it has occurred to me that album art could be something that the listener stares at while the record is playing, for the duration of the record–this is how I suggest the drawing be viewed, only while listening to DSS and for that exact length of time.