this is the secret handpainted poster somewhere on the streets of los angeles. All the rest are silkscreened of a different design. I wonder who will find this one. See you at the show!

Today was another momentous day of drawing. Today sumi ink club convened at siteLA and created what may become the world’s largest keychain attatched to the soon to be created “Key to the City of Los Angeles (or Hercules Key)”. We were joined today by Luke F, Isabelle A, and Prerna a student of philosophy visiting LA from New Dehli, India.



Everyone is welcome to join in–we’ll convene again next week same place same time (1:00 at SiteLA), see you then old and future friends.

These wonderful drawings were made during a summer session at PS 19 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn organized by Ms. Denise Schatz and her students. One of the boldest and most incredible chapters of Sumi Ink CLub to date, a total of 60 sumi ink artists ranging in age from 5 -9 made 6 large-scale, collaborative drawings in one day with markers. This session’s theme: superheroes + how sharing can be heroic.

Drawn by 10 hands. Many thanks to participants luke, sarah c., david, and thomas. So many amazing humans strolling through the door from around the world. If you see a sign on sunset blvd that says “Sumi Ink Club” follow the arrow, walk through the door, and pick up a brush. This is what can happen. See you in the future!!!

This book is the first physical object to spin off internet content from our favorite new media magazine, triple canopy. “Woven Waves and Sumi Cinema 1″ by Sumi Ink CLub, 43 pages, 4.25″ x 6.88″, perfect binding, black and white interior ink

“Sumi Ink Club’s collaboration with Triple Canopy exists online and in book form. Both versions feature two of the group’s drawings, each of which has been enlarged, divided into parts, contracted, and reconfigured. The resulting discrete, yet interconnected, segments manifest varying levels of distance from or closeness to the original ink drawings from which they were extracted. Digital and print incarnations of the project prompt different modes of spatial and temporal engagement with its components. Encountered across multiple forms, “Woven Waves + Sumi Cinema 1″ modulate between order and fluidity.”

You can order or download a copy from lulu.com or by following the link below.

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.