Ink painting

Ink painting uses no color, or only a light wash over the ink, known as ink and light color. How much water goes into the ink sets its tone; dark and pale ink layered and bleeding into each other can render light and shade, distance, and texture, while the speed of the brush leaves different kinds of line. The unpainted space in the picture is part of the composition too. Heo Baek-ryeon, Lee Sang-beom, and Byeon Gwan-sik, shown in the Coreana Museum of Art's Sansu / Landscape, are all modern Korean ink painters.

Find a spot where dark and pale ink meet, and watch how the ink spreads.

How can a painting without color give a sense of near and far?

• True-view landscape 진경산수→Landscapes are mostly painted in ink.